"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
... luxurious Takauji, and on the nomenclature established later by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who collected one hundred and thirty varieties of incense, and invented for the more precious of them names recognized even to this day,—such as "Blossom-Showering," "Smoke-of-Fuji," and "Flower-of-the-Pure- Law." Examples ought to be given likewise of traditions attaching to historical incenses preserved in several princely families, together with specimens of those hereditary recipes for incense- making which have been transmitted ...
— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... finished; beautiful &c 845; classic, chaste, severe. regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c 27; parallel, coextensive. arborescent^, arboriform^; dendriform^, dendroid^; branching; ramous^, ramose; filiciform^, filicoid^; subarborescent^; papilionaceous^. fuji-shaped, fujigata [Jap.]. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... special interest to Mr. Campbell and his guests. They were riding forth to see Fujiyama (or "Fuji San," as the Japanese call it, "yama," meaning simply "mountain"), the sacred mountain of perfect ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
... 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 |
