Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0313Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large sailboat in a river, in the foreground a small rowboat is seen with an idividual standing on it, in the background a mountain covered in clouds is visable. Above the image "T559 (Star)" is printed, below the image "14812T Beloved of Artists and Poets - Snow-capped Fuji, the Sacred Mountain of Japan." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
14812
SNOW-CAPPED FUJI, THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF JAPAN
Mount Zion was not more sacred to the Hebrew peots than is theis Holy White Mountain to the people of Japan. Tradition relates that it arose in a single night, about the time of Alexander the Great: at the same moment Lake Biwa, the Lake of the Lute, was formed, near Kyotot. it is not very difficult to ascent Fuji at midsummer. Women have made the ascent, and have then adopted the Japanese proverb: "There are two kinds of fools: those who have never ascended Fuji and those who have ascended it twice."
The last eruption of the volcano occured in 1707 Tokyo, some sixty miles away, was covered with six inches of ash. The volcano is dormant but not extinct, for there are places high up near the crater where the lava rocks are always hot and steam rises in rifts between the ledges. The mountain is 12,365 feet high; the circuit of its base measures 120 miles; the rim of the crater two and a half miles. Cultivated farms girdle the base to a height of 1,500 feet ; then a wild, flowery moorland stretches to an elevation of 4,000 feet, where thick forest commences and ascends to 7,000 feet or more. It is called Fujiyama, or Fuji-San, or Fuji. The water of life was fabled to spring from its snows and confer immortality.
In its surpassingly beautiful proportions and perfection of symmetry Fuji is surely the world's loveliest mountain. No wonder that Japanese peotes have sung countless hymns to it, that artists have painted its every aspect till people the world around recognize that stately cone when they see it pictured on a fan or screen.
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