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Volcanos Is There a Plan if Mount Fuji Erupts Again

Volcano in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, Japan

Mount Fuji
080103 hakkai fuji.jpg

Mount Fuji seen from the due north-eastward
Highest bespeak
Height 3,776.25 to 3,778.23 m (12,389.3 to 12,395.8 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Prominence iii,776 m (12,388 ft)[1]
Ranked 35th
Isolation ii,077 km (i,291 mi) Edit this on Wikidata
List
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Coordinates 35°21′38″North 138°43′39″E  /  35.36056°N 138.72750°E  / 35.36056; 138.72750 Coordinates: 35°21′38″N 138°43′39″E  /  35.36056°N 138.72750°Eastward  / 35.36056; 138.72750 [2]
Naming
Native proper noun 富士山 (Japanese)
Pronunciation [ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ]
Geography

Mount Fuji is located in Japan

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji

Location of Mount Fuji in Japan

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Mount Fuji is located in Shizuoka Prefecture

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji (Shizuoka Prefecture)

Evidence map of Shizuoka Prefecture

Location Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park
Country Nippon
Prefectures Shizuoka and Yamanashi Yet, the elevation is neither Yamanashi nor Shizuoka.
Shikuchōson Fuji, Fujinomiya, Fujiyoshida, Gotemba, Narusawa and Oyama
Topo map Geospatial Information Authority 25000:ane 富士山 [3]
50000:i 富士山
Geology
Age of rock 100,000 years
Mountain type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1707–08
Climbing
Start ascent 663 past En no Odzunu (役行者, En no gyoja, En no Odzuno)
Easiest route Hiking

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
Criteria Cultural: iii, vi
Reference 1418
Inscription 2013 (37th Session)
Area xx,702.1 ha
Buffer zone 49,627.7 ha
Mount Fuji
Mt Fuji (Chinese characters).svg

"Mt. Fuji" in kanji

Japanese proper noun
Kanji 富士山

Mount Fuji ( 富士山 , Fujisan , Japanese: [ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ] ( mind )), or Fugaku, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mount in Japan, continuing 3,776.24 chiliad (12,389.ii ft). It is the 2d-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (later Mount Kerinci on the isle of Sumatra), and seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth.[1] Mount Fuji is an agile stratovolcano that terminal erupted from 1707 to 1708.[4] [5] The mount is located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Tokyo and is visible from in that location on clear days. Mountain Fuji'due south uncommonly symmetrical cone, which is covered in snowfall for about five months of the year, is commonly used as a cultural icon of Nihon and it is frequently depicted in art and photography, equally well every bit visited by sightseers and climbers.[6]

Mount Fuji is one of Nippon'south "Three Holy Mountains" ( 三霊山 , Sanreizan ) along with Mountain Tate and Mountain Haku. It is a Special Place of Breathtaking Dazzler and ane of Japan'due south Historic Sites.[7] It was added to the World Heritage List equally a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013.[7] According to UNESCO, Mount Fuji has "inspired artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimage for centuries". UNESCO recognizes 25 sites of cultural interest inside the Mount Fuji locality. These 25 locations include the mountain and the Shinto shrine, Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha.[8]

Etymology [edit]

The electric current kanji for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士 , mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "man of status" respectively. However, the origins of this spelling and of the name Fuji continue to be debated.

A text of the ninth century, Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, says that the proper noun came from "immortal" ( 不死 , fushi, fuji ) and also from the image of arable ( 富 , fu ) soldiers ( 士 , shi, ji ) [9] ascending the slopes of the mount.[ten] An early on folk etymology claims that Fuji came from 不二 (non + ii), meaning without equal or nonpareil. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (not + to exhaust), meaning never-ending.

Hirata Atsutane, a Japanese classical scholar in the Edo menstruation, speculated that the name is from a discussion significant, "a mountain standing upward shapely equally an ear ( 穂 , ho ) of a rice found". British missionary John Batchelor (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (fuchi) of the fire deity Kamui Fuchi, which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi on the grounds of phonetic development (audio change). It is as well pointed out that huchi means an "former adult female" and ape is the word for "fire", ape huchi kamuy beingness the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include fuji equally a office as well suggest the origin of the discussion fuji is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root every bit wisteria ( 藤 , fuji ) and rainbow ( 虹 , niji , but with an alternative reading, fuji), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".[11] [12] [13] [xiv]

Modernistic linguist Alexander Vovin proposes an alternative hypothesis based on Old Japanese reading */puⁿzi/: the give-and-take may have been borrowed from Eastern Onetime Japanese */pu nusi/ 火主 meaning 'burn down master'.

Variations [edit]

In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain every bit "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such every bit Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character yama ( 山 , "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the proper noun is transliterated as Huzi.

Other Japanese names which take become obsolete or poetic include Fuji-no-Yama ( ふじの山 , "the Mountain of Fuji"), Fuji-no-Takane ( ふじの高嶺 , "the Loftier Acme of Fuji"), Fuyō-hō ( 芙蓉峰 , "the Lotus Peak"), and Fugaku ( 富岳／富嶽 ), created past combining the first character of 富士 , Fuji, and 岳 , mountain.[15]

History [edit]

Mountain Fuji is an bonny volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art specially subsequently 1600, when Edo (at present Tokyo) became the capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. Co-ordinate to the historian H. Byron Earhart, "in medieval times information technology eventually came to exist seen by Japanese as the "number one" mount of the known world of the three countries of India, People's republic of china, and Japan".[16] The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.[17]

The summit has been idea of equally sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote preparation expanse, near the nowadays-day town of Gotemba. The shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo held yabusame archery contests in the area in the early on Kamakura period.

The first ascent past a greenhorn was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1860, who ascended the mountain in 8 hours and descended in 3 hours.[xviii] : 427 Alcock's brief narrative in The Capital letter of the Tycoon was the get-go widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.[xviii] : 421–27 Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British administrator Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to arise Mount Fuji in 1867.[nineteen] Lensman Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji two years later.[xx]

On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed most the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly later deviation from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to the farthermost clear-air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short altitude downwardly from the Gotemba New 5th station.[21]

Today, Mountain Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.[22] [23] In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr'due south Chautauqua lectures well-nigh his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.[24] A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person volition climb Mt. Fuji in one case in their lifetime, simply merely a fool would climb it twice.[25] [26] Information technology remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,[27] inspiring the Infiniti logo,[28] and even appearing in medicine with the Mountain Fuji sign.[29] [30]

In September 2004, the manned atmospheric condition station at the peak was airtight later on 72 years in functioning. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at iii,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.[31]

Mount Fuji was added to the Earth Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013.[7]

Geography [edit]

Mount Fuji is a very distinctive characteristic of the geography of Japan. It stands three,776.24 grand (12,389 ft) tall and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just southwest of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the n, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the southward. It is surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.[32] They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes every bit far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the heaven is clear. Information technology has been photographed from infinite during a space shuttle mission.[33]

  • Mountain Fuji from the air and from the window of a bullet train.

  • Fuji with persimmon-drying in autumn

Climate [edit]

The summit of Mount Fuji has a tundra climate (Köppen climate classification ET). The temperature is very depression at the high altitude, and the cone is covered by snowfall for several months of the year. The lowest recorded temperature is −38.0 °C (−36.4 °F) recorded in February 1981, and the highest temperature was 17.8 °C (64.0 °F) recorded in Baronial 1942.

Climate data for Mt. Fuji (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1932–present)
Calendar month Jan February Mar April May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) −1.7
(28.9) 		0.0
(32.0) 		ane.0
(33.viii) 		4.7
(40.5) 		12.2
(54.0) 		12.iii
(54.1) 		17.4
(63.3) 		17.8
(64.0) 		sixteen.3
(61.3) 		14.0
(57.2) 		6.9
(44.4) 		3.6
(38.5) 		17.8
(64.0)
Average high °C (°F) −15.3
(iv.v) 		−14.3
(6.3) 		−10.nine
(12.4) 		−5.9
(21.4) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		four.0
(39.ii) 		8.0
(46.4) 		9.five
(49.i) 		6.5
(43.vii) 		0.seven
(33.3) 		−5.ix
(21.4) 		−12.2
(ten.0) 		−3.0
(26.6)
Daily hateful °C (°F) −18.2
(−0.8) 		−17.4
(0.7) 		−14.1
(6.6) 		−8.viii
(16.2) 		−3.2
(26.2) 		i.iv
(34.five) 		5.three
(41.5) 		vi.4
(43.5) 		three.five
(38.3) 		−2.0
(28.iv) 		−viii.vii
(16.3) 		−xv.1
(4.8) 		−5.nine
(21.iv)
Average depression °C (°F) −21.4
(−6.5) 		−21.1
(−half-dozen.0) 		−17.7
(0.1) 		−12.2
(10.0) 		−6.3
(20.7) 		−1.4
(29.5) 		2.viii
(37.0) 		three.8
(38.8) 		0.vi
(33.ane) 		−5.ane
(22.8) 		−xi.viii
(ten.8) 		−18.3
(−0.9) 		−9.0
(15.8)
Record depression °C (°F) −37.3
(−35.1) 		−38.0
(−36.4) 		−33.9
(−29.0) 		−27.8
(−18.0) 		−18.9
(−2.0) 		−13.one
(viii.4) 		−half-dozen.nine
(19.6) 		−4.3
(24.3) 		−ten.8
(12.vi) 		−xix.5
(−3.i) 		−28.1
(−xviii.6) 		−33.0
(−27.4) 		−38.0
(−36.4)
Average relative humidity (%) 53 56 61 63 60 70 79 75 67 53 52 52 62
Source: Nihon Meteorological Agency[34]

Geology [edit]

Relief map and animation realized with SRTM data

Geological cross-section of Fuji volcano. Fundamental: Northward2 = Tertiary sedimentary rocks; αN2 = Third volcanic rocks; αQ1 = Komitake volcano; α-δQ1 = Ashitaka volcano; βQ2 = Older Fuji volcano; αβQ2 = Younger Fuji volcano.[35]

Mount Fuji is located at a triple junction trench where the Amurian Plate, Okhotsk Plate, and Philippine Sea Plate see.[36] [37] These three plates form the western role of Japan, the eastern part of Japan, and the Izu Peninsula respectively.[38] The Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath these plates, resulting in volcanic action. Mount Fuji is too located near three island arcs: the Southwestern Nippon Arc, the Northeastern Japan Arc, and the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc.[38]

Mt. Fuji'southward main crater is 780 metres (2,560 ft) in bore and 240 metres (790 ft) in depth. The bottom of the crater is 100–130 metres (330–430 ft) in diameter. Gradient angles from the crater to a distance of ane.5–ii kilometres (0.93–one.24 mi) are 31°–35°, the angle of repose for dry gravel. Across this distance, slope angles are about 27°, which is caused by an increment in scoria. Mid-flank gradient angles decrease from 23° to less than 10° in the piedmont.[38]

Crater with the 8 Sacred Peaks (Hasshin-po)

Scientists have identified 4 singled-out phases of volcanic activity in the formation of Mount Fuji. The first stage, called Sen-komitake, is composed of an andesite cadre recently discovered deep inside the mountain. Sen-komitake was followed past the "Komitake Fuji", a basalt layer believed to be formed several hundred grand years agone. Approximately 100,000 years agone, "Old Fuji" was formed over the top of Komitake Fuji. The modern, "New Fuji" is believed to have formed over the top of Quondam Fuji around ten,000 years ago.[39]

Pre-Komitake started erupting in the Center Pleistocene in an area 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northward of Mount Fuji. After a relatively short interruption, eruptions began again which formed Komitake Volcano in the same location. These eruptions ended 100,000 years ago. Ashitake Volcano was active from 400,000 to 100,000 years ago, and is located xx kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Mountain Fuji. Mountain Fuji started erupting 100,000 years ago, with Ko-Fuji (sometime-Fuji) forming 100,000 to 17,000 years agone, but which is now nearly completely buried. A large landslide on the southwest flank occurred virtually xviii,000 years ago. Shin-Fuji (new-Fuji) eruptions in the form of lava, lapilli and volcanic ash, have occurred betwixt 17,000 and 8,000 years ago, between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago, and between 4,000 and 2,000 years ago. Flank eruptions, mostly in the class of parasitic cinder cones, ceased in 1707. The largest cone, Omuro-Yama, is one of more than 100 cones aligned NW-SE and NE-SW through the summit. Mt. Fuji also has more than 70 lava tunnels and extensive lava tree molds. Ii large landslides are at the head of the Yoshida-Osawa and Osawa-Kuzure valleys.[38]

As of December 2002[update], the volcano is classified as agile with a depression risk of eruption. The last recorded eruption was the Hōei eruption which started on December xvi, 1707 (Hōei 4, 23rd day of the 11th month), and ended nearly January i, 1708 (Hōei 4, 9th day of the 12th month).[twoscore] The eruption formed a new crater and a second peak, named Mountain Hōei (later on the Hōei era), halfway downwards its southeastern side. Fuji spewed cinders and ash which fell like rain in Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi.[41] Since then, there have been no signs of an eruption. However, on the evening of March 15, 2011, in that location was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake at shallow depth a few kilometres from Mount Fuji on its southern side. But according to the Japanese Meteorological Service there was no sign of any eruption.[42]

Recorded eruptions [edit]

About 11,000 years ago, a big amount of lava began to erupt from the west side of the top of the ancient Fuji mountain. This lava formed the new Fuji which is the main body of Mount Fuji. Since and then, the tops of the ancient Fuji and the new Fuji are side by side. Most 2500-2800 years ago, the top part of aboriginal Fuji acquired a big-scale landslide due to weathering, and finally, only the tiptop of Shin-Fuji remained. There are ten known eruptions that can be traced to reliable records.[43] [44]

Engagement(s) Notes Ref
July 31, 781 The eruption was recorded in the Shoku Nihongi and it was noted that "ash barbarous", merely there are no other details. [45]
April xi – May fifteen, 800
February thirteen, 802 		The Japan Kiryaku states that during the outset phase, the skies were dark even during the daytime. The second phase is known from the Nippon Kiseki, which notes that gravel cruel like hail. [46]
June–September 864
December 865 – January 866 		Both phases were recorded in the Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku. This eruption created three of the Fuji V Lakes: Motosu, Shōji, and Saiko, from a single lake that became separated by lava menstruation. [47]
November 937 This was recorded in the Nihon Kiryaku. [48]
March 999 It is noted in the Honchō Seiki that news of an eruption was brought to Kyoto, but no other details are known. [49]
Jan 1033 According to the Nippon Kiryaku, news of this eruption was brought to Kyoto two months later on. [l]
Apr 17, 1083 The merely gimmicky recording of this was written by a Buddhist monk and can be found in the Fusō Ryakuki. Subsequently writings point that the sound of the eruption may accept been heard in Kyoto. [51]
between Jan 30, 1435 and January 18, 1436 A record of this appears in the Ōdaiki, a relate kept past the monks at Kubo Hachiman Shrine in Yamanashi City and it states that a flame was visible on Mountain Fuji. As there is no mention of fume, this appears to have been a Hawaiian eruption (lava but). [52]
Baronial 1511 The Katsuyamaki (or Myōhōjiki), written by monks at Myōhō-ji in Fujikawaguchiko, indicates that there was a fire on Mount Fuji at this time, only as there is no vegetation at the described location, this was almost certainly a lava flow. [53]
December 16, 1707 The Hōei eruption [54]

Electric current eruptive danger [edit]

Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, at that place was speculation in the media that the daze may induce volcanic unrest at Mountain Fuji. In September 2012, mathematical models created by the National Inquiry Institute for Earth Scientific discipline and Disaster Prevention (NRIESDP) suggested that the pressure in Mount Fuji's magma chamber could exist 1.6 megapascals higher than it was before its last eruption in 1707. This was interpreted by some media outlets to mean that an eruption of Mountain Fuji could exist imminent.[55] Nevertheless, since there is no known method of directly measuring the pressure of a volcano's magma sleeping room, indirect calculations of the blazon used by NRIESDP are speculative and unverifiable. Other indicators suggestive of heightened eruptive danger, such as agile fumaroles and recently discovered faults, are typical occurrences at this type of volcano.[56]

Aokigahara wood [edit]

Aokigahara forest with Mount Fujii and Mountain Ashiwada

The forest at the northwest base of the mountain is named Aokigahara. Folk tales and legends tell of ghosts, demons, Yūrei and Yōkai haunting the forest, and in the 19th century, Aokigahara was one of many places poor families abandoned the very young and the very old.[57] Aokigahara is the earth's third near pop suicide location afterwards San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.[58] Since the 1950s, more than 500 people have died in the wood, mostly suicides.[58] Approximately 30 suicides have been counted yearly, with a loftier of virtually 80 bodies in 2002.[59] The recent increase in suicides prompted local officials to cock signs that attempt to convince individuals experiencing suicidal intent to re-think their desperate plans, and sometimes these messages accept proven effective.[sixty] The numbers of suicides in the past creates an allure that has persisted across the span of decades.[61] [62]

Many of these hikers mark their travelled routes past leaving coloured plastic tapes behind every bit they laissez passer, causing concerns from prefectural officials with regard to the forest's ecosystem.[63]

Adventuring [edit]

A view of Mount Fuji from the Taisekiji temple as depicted by the woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai. The one hundred views of Mount Fuji. From the Elizabeth Joan Tanney estate, c. 1834.

Transportation [edit]

The closest airport with scheduled international service is Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport. It opened in June 2009. It is about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Mount Fuji.[64] The major international airports serving Tokyo, Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) in Tokyo and Narita International Aerodrome in Chiba are approximately three hours and fifteen minutes from Mountain Fuji.

Climbing routes [edit]

Historical illustration of the routes to Mount Fuji

Hikers climbing Mount Fuji

Approximately 300,000 people climbed Mount Fuji in 2009.[65] The most popular period for people to hike upwards Mount Fuji is from July to August, while huts and other facilities are operating and the atmospheric condition is warmest.[65] Buses to the trail heads typically used by climbers start running on July 1.[66] Climbing from October to May is very strongly discouraged, after a number of high-profile deaths and severe common cold conditions.[67] About Japanese climb the mountain at night in order to be in a position at or nigh the summit when the sun rises. The morning light is chosen 御来光 goraikō, "arrival of light".[68]

There are iv major routes to the summit, each has numbered stations along the manner. They are (clockwise, starting North): Kawaguchiko, Subashiri, Gotemba, and Fujinomiya routes.[69] Climbers usually start at the 5th stations, as these are reachable by car or by bus. The summit is the tenth station on each trail. The stations on different routes are at different elevations; the highest 5th station is located at Fujinomiya, followed past Yoshida, Subashiri, and Gotemba. At that place are 4 additional routes from the human foot of the mountain: Shojiko, Yoshida, Suyama, and Murayama routes.[ commendation needed ]

Even though it has only the second-highest fifth stations, the Yoshida road is the nearly-pop route because of its large parking surface area and many large mountain huts where a climber can rest or stay. During the summer flavor, most Mount Fuji climbing tour buses arrive in that location. The side by side-popular is the Fujinomiya road, which has the highest 5th station, followed past Subashiri and Gotemba. The ascent from the new fifth station tin take anywhere between five and seven hours while the descent can take from three to 4 hours.[69]

Even though most climbers practise non climb the Subashiri and Gotemba routes, many descend these because of their ash-covered paths. From the 7th station to virtually the 5th station, one could run downwards these ash-covered paths in approximately 30 minutes. Besides these routes, there are tractor routes forth the climbing routes. These tractor routes are used to bring nutrient and other materials to huts on the mount. Considering the tractors ordinarily accept up almost of the width of these paths and they tend to push big rocks from the side of the path, the tractor paths are off-limits to the climbers on sections that are non merged with the climbing or descending paths. Still, ane can sometimes run across people riding mountain bikes along the tractor routes downwardly from the summit. This is especially risky, equally it becomes hard to command speed and may send some rocks rolling along the side of the path, which may hit other people.

The four routes from the human foot of the mountain offer historical sites. The Murayama is the oldest Mount Fuji route and the Yoshida route still has many onetime shrines, teahouses, and huts along its path. These routes are gaining popularity recently and are being restored, but climbing from the human foot of the mount is still relatively uncommon. Besides, bears have been sighted forth the Yoshida route.

Huts at and above the 5th stations are unremarkably manned during the climbing season, but huts below fifth stations are non usually manned for climbers. The number of open up huts on routes are proportional to the number of climbers—Yoshida has the most while Gotemba has the fewest. The huts along the Gotemba route as well tend to first later and close before than those along the Yoshida route. Besides, because Mount Fuji is designated as a national park, it is illegal to camp to a higher place the fifth station.

There are eight peaks around the crater at the meridian. The highest bespeak in Japan, Ken-ga-mine, is where the Mountain Fuji Radar Organization used to exist (it was replaced by an automated system in 2004). Climbers are able to visit each of these peaks.

Paragliding [edit]

Paragliders take off in the vicinity of the fifth station Gotemba parking lot, between Subashiri and Hōei-zan peak on the s side of the mountain, in addition to several other locations, depending on air current direction. Several paragliding schools use the wide sandy/grassy slope between Gotemba and Subashiri parking lots as a training colina.

In civilization [edit]

Shinto mythology [edit]

In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神?, Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami, in Kojiki)(国常立尊?, Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto, in Nihon Shoki) is one of the two gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the world was chaotic. Co-ordinate to the Japan Shoki, Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi, is the goddess of Mount Fuji, where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.

In ancient times the mountain was worshipped from distant. The Asama shrine was gear up at the foothills to ward off eruptions. In the Heian period (794–1185) volcanic activity subsided and Fuji was used as a base of operations for Shugendō, a syncretic religion combining mountain worship and Buddhism. Worshippers began to climb the slopes and by the early 12th century, Matsudai Shonin had founded a temple on the summit.[70]

Fuji-kō was an Edo menses cult centred effectually the mountain founded by an austere named Hasegawa Kakugyō (1541–1646).[71] The cult venerated the mountain as a female deity, and encouraged its members to climb it. In doing so they would be reborn, "purified and... able to observe happiness." The cult waned in the Meiji period and although information technology persists to this day it has been subsumed into Shintō sects.[72]

Buddhism [edit]

The Buddhist Hokkeko believers of Nichiren Shoshu sect piously merits that the Dai Gohonzon mandala grants supernatural protection from the Buddhist deities against possible volcanic eruption of Mountain Fuji through the daylight morning ritual of Ushitora Gongyo.

Popular culture [edit]

Every bit a national symbol of the land, the mountain has been depicted in various art media such equally paintings, woodblock prints (such as Hokusai's Thirty-vi Views of Mountain Fuji and 100 Views of Mount Fuji from the 1830s), verse, music, theater, moving picture, manga, anime, pottery[73] and even Kawaii subculture.

Before its explosive eruption in 1980, Mount St. Helens was one time known equally "The Fuji of America," for its striking resemblance to Mount Fuji. Mount Taranaki / Mount Egmont in New Zealand is also said to comport a resemblance to Mount Fuji, and for this reason has been used as a stand-in for the mountain in films and television.

Gallery [edit]

  • Mount Fuji in the groundwork of Taisekiji temple

  • Mount Fuji from Lake Motosu which became the model of the m yen bill and the old five one thousand yen bill

  • Mountain Fuji panorama

  • A view of Mount Fuji from Tenjoyama Park, overlooking Kawaguchiko

Encounter also [edit]

  • List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
  • 100 Famous Japanese Mountains
  • Listing of three-thousanders in Japan
  • Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park
  • List of Globe Heritage sites in Japan
  • List of elevation extremes by country
  • Mount Araido ( 阿頼度山 , Araidosan ), Araido Island (阿頼度島), Kuril Islands
  • Mount St. Helens, nicknamed "Fuji-san of America" prior to its 1980 eruption
  • Sacred mountains
  • BOAC Flight 911, a British Boeing 707 plane which crashed on the mountain in 1966.

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External links [edit]

  • "Fujisan (Mountain Fuji)" (PDF). Nihon Meteorological Bureau.
  • Fujisan (Mount Fuji) – Smithsonian Institution: Global Volcanism Program
  • Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan, Nara National Enquiry Institute for Cultural Backdrop
  • three dimensional model of Mount Fuji on sketchfab
  • Official Spider web Site of Mt.Fuji Climbing

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