or "the three mountains of Yamato", in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan, are,, and . Celebrated in Japanese poetry, they have been jointly designated a Place of Scenic Beauty.[1] [2] Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan, is said to have built his palace on the southeast side of Mt Unebi; he is enshrined at Kashihara Jingū.[3] Archaeological study in the 1990s has shown that, rather than their surrounding Fujiwara-kyō on three sides, the "palace-city" was so large as to encompass the three mountains.[4]