Jindai Takanomaki [Powerswood]

Shindai Takanomaki

This sacred tree, the Koyomaki, is produced on Mount Kiso Ontake, an independent mountain with a wide base and where Ontake Shrine is located.
Mount Ontake has experienced four magma eruptions in the last 20,000 years, including an eruption accompanied by pyroclastic flows approximately 5,200 years ago.
For this reason, it is considered rare for a god to emerge by good fortune.
This Jindai Takayamaki has a sweet fragrance.
It is said that trees that remain into the Age of the Gods are often high in oil and hard, so it is not easy to come across an ancient Japanese cypress.
The Japanese yew was originally known as one of the Five Trees of Kiso.
Because it is water resistant and does not easily decay, it is still highly valued today for use as a material for bathtubs and bridges.
It is considered a sacred tree in Mount Koya, and its Japanese name comes from the fact that many of them grow there, at Mount Koya, the head temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect.

A Mt. Koya maki (Japanese Umbrella Pine) Jindai and independent peak with a wide spreading foot, where Mitake Shrine is located.
Including the volcanic eruption of about 5200 years ago, Mt Ontake has experienced four magma eruptions in the span on 20.000 years. Because of this the favorable event a very valuable Jindai trees were born.
The trees that come Jindai an are still here have a lot of resin and are hard, so it said that Jindai Koya Pine is not easy to find.
Koya Pine is know as one of the five famous tree species of Kiso.
Considered a sacred tree of Mt Koya, it`s name come from the fact that this species of tree growly abundantly at Mt Koya where the head or the head temple of the Mt. Koya Shinngon sect is Located