Mount Fuji 富士山
Mt. Fuji at sunrise from Lake Kawaguchi
Elevation	3,776 metres (12,388 ft)
Location	Chūbu region, Honshū, Japan
Prominence	3,776 m (12,388 ft)
Coordinates	35°21′28.8″N 138°43′51.6″E / 35.358, 138.731Coordinates: 35°21′28.8″N 138°43′51.6″E / 35.358, 138.731
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1707[1]
First ascent	663 by an anonymous monk
Easiest route	Hiking

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Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Geology 3 Name 3.1 Variations 3.2 Etymology 4 History 5 Climbing Mount Fuji 6 Paragliding at Mount Fuji 7 Aokigahara 8 Transportation 8.1 Airports 9 See also 10 References 11 External links 12 Gallery: Views of mountain

Geography

Mt. Fuji stands at 3,776 m (12,388 ft) high and is surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shoji. is a Lake near Mt Fuji, Japan. Located in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, it is the most popular of the Fuji Five Lakes in terms of tourists is the biggest of the Fuji Five Lakes. Located in Yamanashi Prefecture in the vicinity of Mount Fuji, Japan The Saiko (西湖 lit "West Lake" is one of the Fuji Five Lakes, located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide excellent views of the mountain. or Hakone Lake, Ashinoko Lake, is a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū, Japan. It is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. is a national park in Yamanashi Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It is also a stratovolcano. A stratovolcano, also called a composite volcano is a tall conical Volcano composed of many layers of hardened Lava, Tephra, and Volcanic The climate is very cold due to the altitude and the cone is covered by snow for several months of the year. The lowest recorded temperature is -35. 5C while on August 16, 2007 the highest temperature was recorded at 18. Events 1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 2 C.

It can be seen from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba when the sky is clear. is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū.

Geology

Scientists have identified four distinct phases of volcanic activity in the formation of Mt. Fuji. The first phase, called Sen-komitake, is composed of an andesite core recently discovered deep within the mountain. For the extinct cephalopod genus see Andesites. Andesite (ˈændəsaɪt is an igneous, Volcanic rock, of intermediate Sen-komitake was followed by the "Komitake Fuji," a basalt layer believed to be formed several hundred thousand years ago. Basalt (bəˈsɔːlt ˈbeisɔːlt ˈbæsɔːlt is a common Extrusive Volcanic rock. Approximately 100,000 years ago, "Old Fuji" was formed over the top of Komitake Fuji. The modern, "New Fuji" is believed to have formed over the top of Old Fuji around 10,000 years ago. [1]

The volcano is currently classified as active with a low risk of eruption. Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the The last recorded eruption started on December 16, 1707 and ended about January 1, 1708 during the Edo period. The started on December 16 1707 ( Hōei 4 23nd day of the 11th month) and ended about January 1 1708 ( Hōei 4 9th day of the 12th month) during the Edo Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Year 1707 ( MDCCVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1708 ( MDCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868 This is sometimes called "the great Hōei eruption. The started on December 16 1707 ( Hōei 4 23nd day of the 11th month) and ended about January 1 1708 ( Hōei 4 9th day of the 12th month) during the Edo " Fuji-san spewed cinders and ash which fell like rain in Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi. Izu (伊豆国 -no kuni was a province of Japan including the Izu Peninsula that is today part of Shizuoka prefecture and the Izu Islands was an old province of Japan. It occupied most of the area that is today Kanagawa prefecture, but present-day Yokohama and Kawasaki, now part of Kanagawa was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo prefecture, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture, mainly Since then, Fuji has not erupted and nor were there any signs of an eruption. ^[3]

At this time, a new crater, along with a second peak, named Hōei-zan after the era name, formed halfway down its side. A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity was a after Genroku and before Shōtoku. This period spanned the years from 1704 through 1711.

Mount Fuji is located at the point where the Eurasian Plate (or the Amurian Plate), the Okhotsk Plate, and the Philippine Plate meet. The Eurasian Plate is a Tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional Continents of Europe The Okhotsk Plate is a Tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan. The Philippine Plate is a Tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippines. Those plates form the western part of Japan, the eastern part of Japan, and the Izu Peninsula respectively. The is a Peninsula to the west of Tokyo on the Japanese island of Honshū.

Name

Variations

Fuji-san is sometimes referred to as "Fujiyama" in some Western texts, but this reading is not correct in standard Japanese. are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana The often-found or -heard "Mount Fujisan" is redundant since the -san suffix means mountain. In Grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an Affix which is placed at the end of a word

In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as Huzi. Nihon-shiki or Nippon-shiki Rōmaji (日本式ローマ字 "Japan-style" romanized as Nihon-siki or Nippon-siki in Nippon-shiki itself is a is a Romanization system ie a system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. At the Japanese pavilion at the World's Fair of San Francisco in 1939, a gigantic photograph was labeled Mt. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Huzi. Nevertheless, the spelling Fuji of the Hepburn romanization is much more common worldwide today. The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese–English

Other Japanese names for Mt. Fuji, which have 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 High Peak of Fuji), Fuyō-hō (芙蓉峰, the Lotus Peak), and Fugaku (富岳 or 富嶽, the first character of 富士, Fuji, and 岳, mountain).

Etymology

The current kanji for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean wealth or abundant and a man with a certain status respectively, but these characters are probably ateji; the characters were likely selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name, and do not carry a particular meaning. are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana In modern Japanese, are Kanji used phonetically to represent native or borrowed words A Chinese character, also known as a Han character ( is a Logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi Japanese (

The origin of the name Fuji is unclear. An early folk etymology claims that Fuji came from 不二 (not + two), meaning without equal or nonpareil. Folk etymology is a term used in two distinct ways A commonly held misunderstanding of the origin of a particular word a False etymology. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (not + exhaust), meaning neverending. A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo 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". was a Japanese scholar conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of Kokugaku (nativist studies and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō A 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 (1882-1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). The Ainu language (Ainu ain アイヌ イタク aynu itak; Japanese: ja アイヌ語 ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu Kamui Fuchi is the Ainu Kamui ( goddess) of the hearth Her full name is Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat ( Rising Fire Sparks was an eminent Japanese linguist from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. Sound change includes any processes of Language change that affect pronunciation ( phonetic change) or sound system structures ( Phonological 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. The are the dominant native Ethnic group of Japan. It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of the Mainland 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". Wisteria is a Genus of about ten species of woody climbing Vines native to the eastern United States and the East Asian states of China ^[4][5][6][7]

A text of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter says that the name came from "immortal" (不死, fushi, fuji^?) and also from the image of abundant (富, fu^?) soldiers (士, shi, ji^?)^† ascending the slopes of the mountain. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese 竹取物語 Taketori Monogatari) is a 10th century Japanese folktale, also known as ^[8]

† Although the word 士 can mean a soldier (兵士, heishi, heiji^?), or a samurai (武士, bushi^?), its original meaning is a man with a certain status.

History

It is thought that the first ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk. The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era. The, or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor, running in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July

The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in 1860. Sir Rutherford Alcock, KCB ( 1809 - 2 November, 1897) was the first British diplomatic representative in Japan

Today, it is a popular tourist destination and common destination for mountain-climbing.

Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art. Volcanic cones are among the simplest Volcano formations in the world Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media including ancient pottery sculpture in wood and bronze ink painting on silk and paper and a myriad of other types of works of Amongst the most renowned works are Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji and his One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. was a Japanese Artist, Ukiyo-e painter and Printmaker of the Edo period. is an Ukiyo-e series of 46 large color woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849 The mountain is also mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and the subject of many poems.

Mt. Fuji also houses a warrior tradition: ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present day town of Gotemba. The shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo held yabusame in the area in the early Kamakura period. is a military rank and historical title in Japan. The Japanese word for "general" it is made up of two Kanji words sho, meaning "commander" was the founder and the first Shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan. is a type of Japanese archery, one that is performed while riding a Horse. The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate, officially established in 1192 by the first Kamakura Shogun As of 2006, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps operate military bases near Mount Fuji. The, or JSDF, are the military forces in Japan that were established after the end of the post- World War II American occupation of Japan

Climbing Mount Fuji

The most popular period for people to hike up Mt. Fuji is from 1 July to 27 August, while huts and other facilities are operating. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Buses to the fifth station start running on 1 July. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song.

There are four major routes from the fifth station to the summit with an additional four routes from the foot of the mountain. The major routes from the fifth station are (clockwise) the Kawaguchiko, Subashiri, Gotemba, and Fujinomiya routes. is a city located on the southeastern flank of Mt Fuji in Shizuoka, Japan. is a city located in Shizuoka, Japan. As of 2008 the city has an estimated Population of 121991 and the density of 388 persons per The routes from the foot of the mountain are the Shojiko, Yoshida, Suyama, and Murayama routes. The stations on different routes are at different sea levels. The highest fifth station is located at Fujinomiya, followed by Kawaguchi, Subashiri, and Gotemba.

Even though it is only the second highest fifth station, the Kawaguchiko route is the most popular route because of its large parking area and many and large mountain huts where a climber can rest or stay. During the summer season, most Mount Fuji climbing tour buses arrive there. The next popular is the Fujinomiya route which has the highest fifth station, followed by Subashiri and Gotemba.

Even though most climbers do not climb the Subashiri and Gotemba routes, many descend these because of their ash-covered paths. From the seventh station to near the fifth station, one could literally run down these ash-covered paths in approximately 30 minutes. Besides these routes, there are tractor routes along the climbing routes. These tractor routes are used to bring food and other materials to huts on the mountain. Because the tractors usually take up most of the width of these path and they tend to push large rocks from the side of the path, the tractor paths are off-limits to the climbers on sections that are not merged with the climbing or descending paths. Nevertheless, one sometimes see some people riding a mountain bike down the tractor route Mt. Fuji from the summit. This is particularly risky, as it becomes difficult to control speed and may roll some rocks along the side of the path which may hit some people.

The four routes from the foot of the mountain offer historical sites. The Murayama is the oldest Mount Fuji route and the Yoshida route still has many old shrines, teahouses, and huts along its path. These routes are gaining popularity recently and are being restored, but don't expect to meet many people climbing from the foot of the mountain. Also, bears have been sighted along the Yoshida route.

An estimated 200,000 people climb Mount Fuji every year, 30% of whom are foreigners. The ascent from the new fifth station can take anywhere between three and eight hours while the descent can take from two to five hours. The hike from the foot of the mountain is divided into 10 stations, and there are paved roads up to the fifth station, which is about 2,300 meters above sea level. Huts at and above the fifth stations are usually manned during the climbing season, but huts below fifth stations are not usually manned for climbers. The number of open huts on routes are proportional to the number of climbers - Kawaguchiko has the most while Gotemba has the least. The huts along the Gotemba route also tends to start later and closes earlier than those at the Kawaguchiko route. Also, because Mount Fuji is designated as a national park, it is illegal to tent above the fifth station.

There are eight peaks around the crater at the summit. The highest point in Japan is where there used to be the Mount Fuji Radar System. The Mount Fuji Radar System is a historic Weather radar system located on the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan. Climbers are able to visit these peaks.

Paragliding at Mount Fuji

Paragliders take off in the vicinity of the fifth station Gotemba parking lot, between Subashiri and Hōei-zan peak on the south side from the Mountain, in addition to several other locations depending on wind direction. Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport A paraglider is a free-flying foot-launched Aircraft. Several paragliding schools use the wide sandy/grassy slope between Gotenba and Subashiri parking lots as a training hill.

Aokigahara

Main article: Aokigahara

The forest at the base of the mountain is named Aokigahara. A forest is an area with a high density of Trees There are many definitions of a forest based on various criteria Folk tales and legends tell of demons, ghosts, and goblins haunting the forest, and in the 19th century, Aokigahara was one of many places poor families abandoned the very young and the very old. A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented A goblin is an evil crabby or Mischievous Creature of Folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or Gnome -like phantom ^[9] Aokigahara is the world’s second most popular suicide location after San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Since the 1950s, more than 500 people have lost their lives in the forest, mostly suicides. ^[10] Approximately 30 suicides have been counted yearly, with a high of nearly 80 bodies in 2002. ^[11] The recent increase in suicides prompted local officials to erect signs that attempt to convince potential suicides to re-think their desperate plans,^[12] and sometimes these messages have proven effective. ^[13] The numbers of suicides in the past creates an allure that has persisted across the span of decades. ^[14]

Due to the dense forest and rugged inaccessibility, the forest has also attracted thrill seekers. Many of these hikers marked their travelled routes by leaving coloured plastic tapes behind, causing concerns from prefectural officials with regard to the forest's ecosystem. ^[15]

Transportation

Airports

The closest major airports are Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) in Tokyo and Narita International Airport in Chiba. located in Ōta Tokyo, Japan, is one of the two primary Airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area. is an international Airport located in Narita, Chiba, Japan, in the eastern portion of the Greater Tokyo Area. Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport is currently under construction in Shizuoka and expected to be completed and operational by March, 2009. is an airport currently under construction in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is about 80 km (50 mi) from Mt. The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Fuji.

On 5 March 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. BOAC Flight 911 ( Speedbird 911) was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout All 113 passengers and 11 crew members were killed in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. Clear air turbulence weather (CAT sometimes colloquially referred to as "air pockets" is the erratic movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues such as clouds In Meteorology, lee waves, are atmospheric Standing waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal Gravity There is now a memorial for the crash a little way down from the Gotemba New fifth station.

See also

• Geography of Japan
• Historic eruptions of Mt.Fuji
• Hoei eruption of Mount Fuji
• Suruga Bay picture with Mt. Japan is an Island nation in East Asia comprising a large stratovolcanic Archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia Mount Fuji is the tallest volcano in Japan and also the volcano with the greatest volume The started on December 16 1707 ( Hōei 4 23nd day of the 11th month) and ended about January 1 1708 ( Hōei 4 9th day of the 12th month) during the Edo Hiroshige_Fuji_23jpg|thumb|right|200px| Suruga Satta no Kaijō (The sea off Satta Suruga woodblock print by Hiroshige. Fuji at the background

References

• Titsingh, Isaac. Isaac Titsingh ( 10 January 1745 in Amsterdam – 2 February 1812 in Paris) was a Dutch surgeon scholar merchant-trader (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652]. Hayashi Gahō (林鵞峰 (1618 &ndash 1688 also known as Hayashi Shunsai, was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. is a 17th century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings during each period Paris: Oriental Translation Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS was according to its Royal Charter of August 11, 1824 ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

External links

• Shizuoka prefecture Fujisan view system
• Shizuoka prefecture
• Online magazine to various aspects of Mt. Fuji
• TierraWiki.org: Mount Fuji on TierraWiki
• Live Webcams of Mt. Fuji
• Satellite picture by Google Maps
• Mount Fuji travel guide from Wikitravel
• PDMZ.com's year-round pictures of Mt. Fuji
• Travel & Climb Mt.Fuji
• Kawaguchi Lake Immersive Virtual Tour
• Mount Fuji Travel & Climbing Guide @ Picturetokyo.com Information & Guides
• Mt. Fuji as viewed from Lake Tanuki
• Mt. Fuji as viewed from Biodiversity Center of Japan
• The latest Mt. Fuji
• Pictures of routes up Mt. Fuji
• Pictures, video, and story of U.S. Marines hiking up Mount Fuji
• Topographic map (1:25,000)
• MountFujiGuide - community guide for Mt. Fuji area

Gallery: Views of mountain

Image of Mount Fuji taken by NASA. Wikitravel is a Web -based project "to create a free, complete up-to-date and reliable worldwide travel guide. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program	Image of Mount Fuji taken from an airplane.	Buildings and hikers at the summit of Mount Fuji	Mount Fuji with a Shinkansen and Sakura blossoms in the foreground
Mount Fuji seen from Mount Tanjo on a clear day in mid-October	Kawaguchi Railway Station on the Fujiko Line with Mount Fuji in background	Lake Saiko, Yamanashi with Mount Fuji in background	Image of Mount Fuji taken from the ISS. The is a Network of High-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. The Saiko (西湖 lit "West Lake" is one of the Fuji Five Lakes, located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Mt. Fuji in Nov 2006 from the Tokyo to Kyoto Shinkansen (bullet train). officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. (IPA /kʲoːto / is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. The is a Network of High-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies	Sign near the top	Mount Fuji from a 5th Station parking lot, December 30, 2006	Mount Fuji at sunset as seen from an airplane approaching Narita airport, December 2003. is an international Airport located in Narita, Chiba, Japan, in the eastern portion of the Greater Tokyo Area.

View from the top

Torii near summit of Mount Fuji

View from fuji mountain south slope crop

Shadow of Mount Fuji on the upper side of the cloud-layer

Non-photographic images

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1832), from 36 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai	Mount Fuji in Clear Weather by Hokusai	Red Fuji by Hokusai	Hodogaya on the Tokaido Road by Hokusai
The sea off Satta, Suruga (Suruga Satta no Kaijō) by Hiroshige (1859)	Mt. A is a traditional Japanese Gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine, although it can be found at Buddhist temples as well is a famous woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. A literal translation of the Japanese name would be "Off Kanagawa the back (or underside of a wave is an Ukiyo-e series of 46 large color woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849 was a Japanese Artist, Ukiyo-e painter and Printmaker of the Edo period. was a Japanese Ukiyo-e artist and one of the last great artists in that tradition Fuji seen across a plain by Hiroshige	Surugacho (Suruga Street) (1856), from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige, depicting the Echigoya kimono and money exchange store with Mount Fuji in background

literally bay - Door, " Estuary " edo once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the is one of the largest corporate conglomerates ( Keiretsu) in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world The is the National costume of Japan. Originally the word "kimono" literally meant thing to wear ( ki wearing and mono thing but now has come

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