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Fuji

noun

Shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms. Synonyms: fuji cherry, Prunus incisa.

An extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages. Synonyms: Fuji-san, Fujinoyama, Fujiyama, Mount Fuji.

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"Fuji" Quotes from Famous Books

... land of Horaizan, but he never returned to the waiting Emperor; but ever since that time Mount Fuji has been said to be the fabled Horaizan and the home of hermits who had the secret of the elixir, and Jofuku has been worshiped as ...

— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki

... Yokohama the sun was setting over a landscape that realised one's preconceived ideas of the beauty of the country. On one side, low ridges with rows of picturesque pine-trees just as you know them from Japanese prints, while in the background to the west, above the clouds rose the top of Fuji, nearly 4,000 metres above sea-level. We steamed up in absolute calm, while the long twilight was still further prolonged by a ...

— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz

Words linked to "Fuji" : japan, flowering cherry, Nihon, Nippon, volcano