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Fuji   /fˈudʒi/   Listen
Fuji

noun
1.
Shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms.  Synonyms: fuji cherry, Prunus incisa.
2.
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



... 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

... 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



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



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