富士山下看樱花.ppt

富士山下看樱花 Mount Fuji, cherry blossoms in full bloom 富士山下，樱花盛开 an introduction of Fujisan ‘’Fujisan’’(富士山) means Mount Fuji, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24?m (12,389 ft). Along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, it is one of Japans Three Holy Mountains ( Sanreizan). An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–08, Mount Fuji is just west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fujis exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers. Name In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as Fujiyama and Fuji-san. Fujiyama is an incorrect reading of the characters used to spell the mountain itself. Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as Fuji-san. This -san suffix is not the honorific used with peoples names, such as Watanabe-san, but rather the Onyomi reading of the character 山 yama (means mountain in English) used in compounds. Etymology 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 probably ‘’ateji’’, meaning that the characters were likely selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a particular meaning. The origin of the name Fuji is unclear. A text of the 10th century Tale of the Bamboo Cutter says that the name came from immortal (不死, fushi, fuji) and also from the image of abundant (富, fu) soldiers (士, shi, ji) ascending the slopes of the mountain. An early folk etymology claims that Fuji came from 不二 (not + two), meaning without equal or nonpareil. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (not + exhaust), 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 (ho) of a rice plant. A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued