神かん奈な備び

noun

sacred mountain or forest where a deity resides

A Shinto term for a mountain or forest believed to be inhabited by a kami. Often appears in classical poetry and shrine contexts. The reading かんなび is most common; かむなび and かみなび are older or poetic variants.

• 神かん奈な備びの山やまには古ふるい神じん社じゃが鎮ちん座ざしている。

  An old shrine sits quietly on the sacred mountain.

• 万まん葉よう集しゅうには神かん奈な備びを詠よんだ歌うたが多おおく見みられる。

  Many poems in the Man'yōshū sing of sacred mountains.