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The CHUTE D’EAU DE NACHI ( Nachi Falls , NACHI NO TAKI ? ) or more familiarly Ichi No Taki (“The first of the waterfalls”), is one of the most imposing waterfalls in Japan, but it is also a sacred place of Shinto and Buddhism. It is located in the town of Nachikatsuura in the prefecture of Wakayama, Kii peninsula, on the Nachi-Gawa.

The Nachi waterfall is one of the forty-eight falls in Nachi-Gawa, in the Kii peninsula, on the territory of the Yoshino-Kumano National Park. It is one of the most impressive waterfalls in Japan, with its 133 meters high for around 13 meters wide [ first ] .

The waterfall is an important place in Shinto and Buddhist religions, attracting many visitors each year. Around X It is century, three large sanctuaries linked to the surrounding mountains were closer to form the Kumano Sanzan religious complex: the Kumano Hongū Taicha, the Kumano Hayatama-Taisha and the Kumano Nachi Taicha (“Kumano” being the old name of the region), to which he must also add the Buddhist temples seiganto-ji and fudarakusan-ji [ 2 ] . For the shinto, the waterfall hosts a we And is the spiritual heart of all the surrounding mountains. A festival takes place every year, the , he guides the we From all Japan to the waterfall for a purifier rite. In Buddhist schools of the time, notably Shingon, Tendai and Pure Earth ( jōdo ), the fall is associated with Kannon, and a cult at the Buddha Amida is also rendered there [ 3 ] . At XIII It is A century, the legend says that the monk IPPEN following a revelation of the Buddha, decides to found the Ji-Shū school, a branch of the pure earth still well rooted in Japan. This complex a high place of pilgrimage [ 4 ] .

Due to its unusual proportions and the spiritual values ​​attached to it, the waterfall was often represented in Japanese painting, it appears on mandalas [ 5 ] , and Emaki of the’ Ippen HIJIRI-E (1299) [ 6 ] or on a kakemono de IKE NO TAIGA (1770) [ 7 ] . However, the most famous work may be the kakemono on silk of To the cascades of Nachi dating from XIII It is century (national treasure of Japan); Although inspired by the art of the Chinese landscape, it is imbued with Shinto mythology. It represents a high white column which rushes on rocks surrounded by majestic cypresses [ 8 ] , [ 9 ] .

The waterfall is notably described in the Heike monogatari ( Dit this hes ) [ 3 ] .

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  • La chute vue de plus loin.

    The fall seen from a further.

  • Chute d'eau de Nachi avec le temple bouddhiste Seiganto-ji au premier plan.

    Nachi waterfall with the Buddhist temple Seigganto-ji in the foreground.

  • Kakemono de la Cascade de Nachi, XIIIe siècle.

    Kakemono from Nachi waterfalls , XIII It is century.

  1. ↑ (in) Japan Atlas: Nachi Falls , web-japan.org
  2. ↑ (in) Kumano Sanzan , Tanabe City Kumano Tourism Bureau
  3. ↑ a et b (in) Jeremy Roberts , Japanese Mythology A to Z , Infobase Publishing, , 2 It is ed. , 138 p. (ISBN  978-1-60413-435-3 , read online ) , p. 85
  4. ↑ (in) Satō masato, Kumano shinkō Sur L’Encyclopédie du shinto, UNIVERSITé kokugakuin
  5. ↑ (in) Elizabeth Grotenhuis , Japanese mandalas : representations of sacred geography , University of Hawaii Press, , 227 p. (ISBN  978-0-8248-2081-7 , read online ) , p. 85
  6. ↑ Christine Shimizu, Japanese art , Flammarion, coll. “All art”, , 448 p. (ISBN  978-2-08-013701-2 ) , p. 193-6
  7. ↑ (in) Penelope E. Mason a donald Dinwiddie , History of Japanese art , Pearson Prentice Hall, , 432 p. (ISBN  978-0-13-117601-0 ) , p. 332
  8. ↑ Theo Léoualc’h , Japanese painting , vol. 25, Lausanne, editions meeting, coll. “General history of painting”, , p. 42
  9. ↑ MiBeYo MURASE ( trad. from English), Japan art , Paris, LGF editions – Pocket Book, coll. “The Pochotheque”, , 414 p. (ISBN  2-253-13054-0 ) , p. 162-163

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