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Mount Fuji, Fujisan

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: See below
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Explanation



Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama,
is the highest mountain in Japan. A dormant volcano that last erupted in 1708, it straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures just west of Tokyo, from which it can be seen on a clear day. It is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshū. Three small cities surround it, they are: Gotemba (East), Fuji-Yoshida (North) and Fujinomiya (Southwest).

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

Mt. Fuji stands at 12,388 ft/ 3,776 m high and is surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shoji. They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide excellent views of the mountain. It is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.

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FUJI sounds like BUJI, to be safe, and has therefore an auspicious meaning.
富士、ふじ、冨士山
Fujiyama, Fuji no Yama, Mount Fuji, Mt. Fuji, Fujisan

Issa uses the old spelling 不二, meaning NOT TWO,
to express the uniqueness of this mountain.




source : Kit Nagamura, facebook

Look at the ORANGE Fuji and more haiku HERE :
Fuji Yoshida Fire Festival (Yoshida himatsuri, Yoshida chinkasai)



Fujizuka festival 富士塚祭り Fuji Hill Festival
The "Fuji Hill", miniatur-Fuji at the shrine Onoterusaki jinja 小野照崎神社 in Tokyo is about 7 meters high.
To climb it would bring the same spiritual merit as climbing Mt. Fuji itself.
. Fujizuka festival 富士塚祭り in Tokyo .

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Shared by Shad Hall - seen from Yamanashi
Joys of Japan, January 2012




Watch the Sunrise at Mount Fuji
source : www.youtube.com


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Ships in Harbour Near Mount Fuji
Emiko Satsuta






Night view of Mount Fuji. 1915
Kobayshi Kiyochika 小林清親 (1847-1915）


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kigo for the New Year

First view of Mount Fuji, hatsu Fuji 初富士


on an auspicious sake cup, fuku masu 福枡 auspicious masu


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kigo for all summer

natsu Fuji 夏富士 (なつふじ) Mount Fuji in summer
..... natsu no Fuji 夏の富士（なつのふじ）
aofuji 青富士（あおふじ） "green Mount Fuji"


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kigo for mid-summer

satsuki Fuji 五月富士 (さつきふじ)
Fuji in the fifth lunar month
..... 皐月富士（さつきふじ）
Mount Fuji during the Rainy Season


Fuji no yukige 富士の雪解 (ふじのゆきげ)
snow melting on Mount Fuji
..... yukige Fuji 雪解富士（ゆきげふじ）
fuji yukige 富士雪解（ふじゆきげ）


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. Asakusa Fuji Mode 浅草富士詣
Pilgrimage to the Fuji Shrine in Asakusa
Edo Sengen sai 江戸浅間祭 (えどせんげんさい) Sengen festival in Edo
The Fuji Asama Sengen Shrine in Asakusa, Tokyo
浅草の富士浅間神社


observance kigo for mid-summer

Fuji gori, Fujigori 富士垢離 (ふじごり)
ascetic ablutions at Mt. Fuji
Fujigyoo 富士行（ふじぎょう）ascetics at Mt. Fuji
Fujigoya, Fuki goya 富士小屋（ふじごや） hut at Mt. Fuji
(during the ascetic rituals)


source :　mnjr

Near the shrine Fujinomiya Sengen Jinja is a small pond (o-tsubo　お壺), where the pilgrims perform ablutions before starting the first climb of Mt. Fuji in the season (see kigo below).
Some perform only these ablutions and do not climb the mountain (especially the elderly).

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observance kigo for late summer

Fuji moode 富士詣 (ふじもうで) pilgrimage to Mt. Fuji
Fujiy yamabiraki 富士山開（ふじやまびらき）
opening the season for climbing Mt. Fuji
Fuji dooja 富士道者（ふじどうじゃ）pilgrim to Mt. Fuji
Fuji gyooja 富士行者（ふじぎょうじゃ）ascetic pilgrim to Mt. Fuji

Fuji senjoo 富士禅定（ふじぜんじょう）ascetic climb to the top of Mt. Fuji
sanjoo moode 山上詣（さんじょうもうで）pilgrimage to the mountain top
sanjoo 山上（さんじょう）"honorable mountain top"
... o choojoo お頂上（おちょうじょう）

shinogoya 篠小屋（しのごや）reed hut
to practise austerities

Fujikoo, Fuji koo 富士講（ふじこう）Mount Fuji worship group
(especially in Edo)
Sengenkoo, Sengen koo 浅間講（せんげんこう）Sengen worship group

. Mount Fuji worship groups . Fujikoo

The pilgrims of old wore white robes and usually came in groups, with a leader. Many came all the way from Edo, to climb the sacred mountain once in their lives.
Many shrines in Japan had a special rock where Fuji worshippers could "climb" to the top and perform austerities and offer prayers.




The deity Sengen Daibosatsu 浅間大菩薩
was venerated at the Sengen Shrines in Japan.

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Daibosatsu is obviously a term of Buddhist origin, and refers to a "great kami that has awakened to the Way of the Bodhisattva."
The title daibosatsu is first seen in 781, when the kami Hachiman was honored with the title Gokoku Reigen Iriki Jintsū Daibosatsu ("Great Bodhisattva of National Protection and Marvelous Spirit Power").
From that time, the title daibosatsu has been applied to numerous other kami, including Fuji Sengen Daibosatsu and Tado Daibosatsu.
source : Sato Masato, Kokugakuin, 2005


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Fuji Sengen Shinkō
The cult of Mount Fuji/Mount Sengen.
The old reading of the characters 浅間 is asama. (they can also be read sengen).
One theory as to why Mount Fuji was called Asama is based on the fact that the words "asa" and "aso" mean a volcano or a volcanic eruption, but there is still no generally accepted explanation. There is also Asama faiths related to both Mount Asama (浅間山) in Nagano Prefecture and Mount Asama（朝熊山）in Mie Prefecture.
A story in the Hitachi no kuni fudoki relates that an "ancestor kami" (oyagami) requests lodging for one night from the kami Fuji of Fuji-dake (now Mount Fuji) and there is a poem with the words "the divine presiding kami" in the Manyōshū, which indicates that there was a faith of the deified Mount Fuji since times of old.
source : Nogami Takahiro, KokuGakuIn 2007


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earth kigo for late summer

The Red Fuji, Akafuji, 赤冨士





. SAIJIKI ... category EARTH
Kigo for Summer 　　


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kigo for early autumn

. Fuji no yama-arai 富士の山洗（ふじのやまあらい）
"washing mount Fuji" 　
"washing the mountain", oyama arai 御山洗 (おやまあらい)
Strong rain in autumn, that clears the mountain air.



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kigo for mid-autumn

. Fuji no hatsuyuki 富士の初雪 (ふじのはつゆき)
first snow on Mount Fuji 　



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kigo for all winter


. Fuji no kasagumo 富士の笠雲（ふじのかさぐも）
"bamboo hat clouds" around the top of Mt. Fuji 　




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　WASHOKU
Food and Mount Fuji 　


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Seen from outer space, July 2009
(NASA/JSC)

source : www.boston.com/bigpicture



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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way

Mount Fuji with its typical volcanoe shape can also be used to dedicate a local mountain of a similar shape.


Ezo Fuji, 蝦夷富士, えぞ富士, えぞふじ, Hokkaido



Rishiri Fuji, 利尻富士, りしりふじ, Hokkaido



Sanuki Fuji, 讃岐冨士、さぬきふじ、Shikoku


Local Mount Fuji, Furusato Fuji ふるさと富士
Japanese List with local FUJI mountains!


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Daruma san and Mount Fuji




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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎



One hundred views of Mt. Fuji
Fugaku Hyakkei 富嶽百景

and

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Fugaku Sanjūrokkei 富嶽三十六景



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. Mount Fuji and the Dragon .


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The town of Fuji at the foot of Mount Fuji is using Kaguyahime as a tourist ttraction.
The story goes that her prince came after her and they lived happily in a stone cave in the mountain, which is named FUJI 不死 Mountain where you do not die.

. Kaguyahime in Fuji 不死 Town 　



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Mt. Fuji seen from Tagonoura
Kawase Hasui 川瀬 巴水 (1883-1957)

. Tago no Ura 田子の浦 Tagonoura Bay .


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HAIKU

初富士のかなしきまでに遠きかな
hatsu fuji no kanashiki made ni tooki kana

first Mt. Fuji
until I have become sad
at such a distance

Yamaguchi Seison 山口青邨
Click HERE for more New Year Fuji Haiku !

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hatsu fuji ya chazan no ue ni kakure nashi

On New Year's Day
Mt. Fuji presents a brilliant figure
above the tea hills.

Fuusei Tomiyasu
Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection
Miura, Yuzuru　

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yukibare no fuji chuuten ni sobietatsu

after the snow
Mt. Fuji soars
into the clear skies

Shinya Ogata

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- - - - -Matsuo Basho - - - - -

富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産
fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage

the wind from mt. fuji.
i brought it on my fan.
a souvenir from edo
Tr. Awol Monk


wind from Mt. Fuji -
carrying it on my fan,
a souvenir for those in Edo
Tr. Barnhill


Edo relic –
Fuji wind calm
on the fan.
Tr. Stryk



A wind from Mount Fuji
resting on the fan,
my souvenir from Edo.
Tr. Ueda



the wind of Mt. Fuji
I've brought on my fan!
a gift from Edo
Tr. Etsuko Yanagibori

MORE - Explanatins by Etsuko san :
. WKD : Basho and Mount Fuji .



Written in 1676, 延宝4年6月 Basho Age 33.
On the way to Iga Ueno. Probably written at the home of Shi-in 市隠.
This is a greeting hokku to his host, who maybe presented him with a fan to keep cool during the summer heat.

Takahata Shi-in 高畑市隠 (? - 1722)
He was a companion of Basho during his time with the young lord Todo Shinshichiro 藤堂新七郎 in Iga.
One of Shi-in's hokku is in the Sarumino collection.


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霧時雨　富士を見ぬ日ぞおもしろき
kiri-shigure Fuji o minu hi zo omoshiroki

misty rain.
the day when I don't see Mt. Fuji:
most fascinating!
(Tr. Susumu Takiguchi)


in the misty rain
Mount Fuji is veiled all day --
how intriguing!
(Tr. Makoto Ueda)


Misty rain;
Today is a happy day,
Although Mt. Fuji is unseen.
(Tr. thegreenleaf.co.uk )


from
. Nozarashi Kiko 野ざらし紀行.

Read more haiku about mount Fuji by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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. . . . . . . . Issa and his FUJI haiku


麦刈の不二見所の榎哉
mugi kari no fuji mi-dokoro no enoki kana

a Mount Fuji viewing spot
for barley harvesters...
nettle tree



初松魚序ながらも富士の山
hatsu-gatsuo tsuide nagara mo fuji [no] yama

right after
summer's first bonito...
Mount Fuji



有明や不二へ不二へと蚤のとぶ
ariake ya fuji [e] fuji [e] to nomi no tobu

dawn--
to Fuji! to Fuji!
fleas jumping off



かたつむり そろそろのぼれ 富士の山
katatsumuri sorosoro nobore Fuji no yama

Climb Mount Fuji,
O snail,
but slowly, slowly.

Issa, Tr. David Lanoue


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eyes
so small, yet
Mount Fuji

Al Fogel
USA, February 2011


Though the eye is small,
the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives.
In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects,
however large or numerous, within itself.
For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos
as that the cosmos is within you.
— Meher Baba


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fune ukabe himemasu tsuri ya fuji biyori

floating in a boat
fishing for trout -
Mount Fuji in sunshine

im Boot schaukeln
nach Forellen fischen -
der Fuji im Sonnenschein

©　Asano san : Haiku with Hundred
Tr. Gabi Greve


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otherworldly
above the rain-bent pampas
Mount Fuji in sun

- Shared by Kit Nagamura -
Joys of Japan, September 2012



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新雪の富士の肩荒きへら使ひ
shinsetsu no Fuji no kata araki heratsukai

first snow -
the side of Mount Fuji looks
so roughly palleted

Hosomi Ayako 細見綾子
Tr. Gabi Greve





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Related words

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***** First dream of the new year (hatsu yume)


***** Wisteria (fuji). Japan. wisteria trellis, fujidana and more kigo


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***** . Folk Toys from Shizuoka .

***** . Fuji Tengu 富士天狗（富士太郎）Tengu from Mount Fuji .




Hiroshige
歌川広重「広重五十三次」

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