The first record of such Yama was "Aoba-yama (literally, mountain covered with green leaves)" written in the paragraph on Emperor Suinin in the "Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)," according to which Satsumi KIHI, patriarch of Izumonokuni no Miyatsuko, had built a mountain decorated with green leaves as a garden dedicated to Ashihara no Shikoo (Okuninushi).
記録に残っている最初の山は『古事記』の垂仁天皇の条にある「青葉山」で、出雲国造の祖である岐比佐都美が葦原色男（大国主）を祀る庭として青葉で飾った山を造ったとある。