Japan

                                MOUNT FUJI

Mount Fuji is located on the Houshu land,which is 12,398 ft (3,776.24).And mount fuji is the highest mountain in japan.Mount Fuji is an active startovolcano that erupted during 1707-08,this lies about 60 mi or 100 kilometers south-west of Tokyo,the mount Fuji can be seen from there itself on a clear day.The Mount fuji is exceptionally symmetrical cone it is snow-capped for several months a year, it is well-known symbol of japan, this Mount Fuji is frequently depicated in art and photograpys, it is been also visted by the sightseers and the climbers.In japan there are Three Holy Mountains, and Mount Fuji is one of it.The Holy Mountains are Mount Haku, Mount Tate and the Mount Fuji.It is also added in the World Heritage List as a cultural site on june 22,2013, it is a Special Place of Science Beauty and a Historic site.According to the heritage site the  Mount Fuji is selected as a cultural than a natural site. According to the UNESCO, the Mount Fuji has inspired artists and poets and the pilgrimage for centuries.The current kanji for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, these characters are ateji  meaning that the characters were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.

The origin of the name Fuji is unclear. A text of the 10th century Tale of Bamboo Cutter says that the name came from "immortal" and also from the image of abundant soldiers  ascending the slopes of the mountain. An early folk etymology   claims that Fuji came from 不二 , meaning without equal or nonpareil. Another claims that it came from 不尽 , 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 of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu   word for "fire" of the fire deity ,which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi(1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development . 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 fujias a part also suggest the origin of the word fuji is in the  Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as Wisteria and rainbow (虹 ), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".