Mount Fuji, Japan from Oshino - posted to Sweden 1969

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  View of Mount Fuji from Oshino
• Publisher:  Sato Shashin Kogei
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Japan 10y mauve (SG860) + 45y (SG1057)
• Postmark(s):  Barisawa (?) 29/10/69
• Sent to:  Mollosund, Sweden
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Mount Fuji (???, Fuji-san^?, IPA: [???d?isa?] ( listen)), located on Honshu Island, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft).^[1] An active stratovolcano^[5][6] that last erupted in 1707–08, Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers. It is one of Japan's ""Three Holy Mountains"" (???, Sanreizan^?) along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku; it is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and has been submitted for future inscription on the World Heritage List as a Cultural (rather than Natural) Site.

The current kanji for Mount Fuji, ? and ?, mean ""wealth"" or ""abundant"" and ""a man with a certain status"" respectively. However, these characters are^[10] ateji, meaning that the characters were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.

The origin of the name Fuji is unclear. A text of the 10th century Tale of the Bamboo Cutter says that the name came from ""immortal"" (??, fushi, fuji^?) and also from the image of abundant (?, fu^?) soldiers (?, shi, ji^?)^[11] ascending the slopes of the mountain.^[12] An early folk etymology claims that Fuji came from ?? (not + two), meaning without equal or nonpareil. Another claims that it came from ?? (not + to exhaust), meaning neverending.

A Japanese classical scholar in the Edoe era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning ""a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (ho) of a rice plant"". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (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 Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed out that huchi means an ""old woman"" and ape is the word for ""fire"", ape huchi kamuy being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include fuji as a part also suggest the origin of the word fuji is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as ""wisteria"" (fuji) and ""rainbow"" (niji, but with an alternative word fuji), and came from its ""long well-shaped slope

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Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. Three small cities surround it: Gotemba to the south, Fujiyoshida to the north, and Fujinomiya to the southwest. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shoji.^[31] They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide excellent 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 as far as Chiba, Saitama, and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission (see image, below).^[32]

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