Mt. Fuji and the Great Lakes

    There are five lakes connected with Yamanakako, Kawaguchiko, Sai-ko, Shoji-ko, and Lake Motosu from the east in the north foot of the Fuji volcano, and it is building Mt. Fuji and a beautiful scene. With lava, the valley between the north Misaka mountain land and Mt. Fuji is dammed up, and these lakes are made.
    A deep thing and the surface of a lake have a thing with an above sea level [, such as Lake Titicaca, Hachirogata, Hamanako, ] of 0 m like the Caspian Sea in the lake in the world like Lake Baikal in what has a big area, and depth of water.
    The activity which spouts a lot of lava is about 10,000 years ago, and it is said that it was dammed up by the lava and the Oshino lake, Kawaguchiko, Senoumi, and Lake Motosu were made.
A lot of lava was flowed out of the Nagao mountain of the Mt. Fuji northwest foot, and Senoumi was divided to Sai-ko and Shoji-ko.
    Sai-ko, Shoji-ko, and Lake Motosu have the almost the same orthometric height of the surface of a lake. It will cool rapidly, if hot lava enters into water, and it becomes lava.
That lava becomes clod-like, and it lets between a clod and clods pass, and is considered because these three lakes are connected.
    Although there is the lake of Tanzu in the Mt. Fuji foot in addition to the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji, this is the lake dammed up on the artificial bank.
    Most of the water of a lake is springwater. The area in which the water of the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji is brought together is the ground which is easy to let the water covered with the grit of Mt. Fuji pass, and the rain which fell sinks into the ground, without flowing through the ground, serves as groundwater, and it is gushing and making it into the bottom of a lake.
     The area of Yamanakako is the 5 Konaka maximum and is a place which is one of the altitude of about 1,000 m, and high places, and is coolly popular as a summer resort also in summer.
    Kawaguchiko is opened as a tourist resort for many years, and is busy places standing in a row, such as a hotel.
    Sai-ko is deep after Lake Motosu, and the west side is a quiet lake contiguous to Aokigahara.
    Shoji-ko is the smallest lake among five lakes.
    Lake Motosu is the deepest lake among five lakes, and transparency is also 12.7 m and a beautiful high lake.

an economy of Mt.Fuji

    Although every year 20 million tourists came just by now to Mt. Fuji and the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji and I was in the limelight as a global tourist resort, Mt. Fuji was a mountain still seen from a distance, and the Taisho last stage 80 years ago was a very rare time except what a mountaineer also visits as a mountain of summer faith of a Buddhist ascetic in white.

    Those days, Japanese, an American, and Europeans are the main tourists and people of the other countries did not come. However, now, tourist's kind has also been changing in connection with development of Asian nations, or developing countries' economic development.

    However, subjects, such as a problem of urination and a problem of garbage, are also held with the increase in tourists.
    Moreover, these days, the popular Mt. Fuji sightseeing has received the blow in the Chinese tourist according to aggravation of the Japan-China relations involving the Senkaku Islands (Okinawa Prefecture). A sight of Chinese people was no longer caught hardly at the tourist season midst, and a tourist's scramble has also started in the hotel.
   
     In Fuji and the eastern part area region in Yamanashi Prefecture which tourist resorts, such as Mt. Fuji and the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji, concentrate, a 17 million 25 million people tourist per year visits. 87,510 Chinese stayed in the prefecture in the conclusion of the Japan Tourism Agency last year when an earthquake disaster was also.
    Chinese people's figure disappeared after the Senkaku Islands nationalization by the Japanese government.

    Mt. Fuji has springwater abundantly and is famous for natural water.
The subsoil water which makes Mt. Fuji a source is used, and the paper industry and the manufacturing industry are performed actively in the surrounding area. Moreover, since the subsoil water of Mt. Fuji contains vanadium abundantly, it is sold as mineral water. Moreover, the tourist partner's tourist business is also performed actively.    

a variety of Mt.Fuji

    Mt. Fuji is a big stratovolcano made with basalt, and is born about 100,000 years ago at the foot of senkomitake volcano and komitake volcano.   It carried out and has formed the present beautiful cone by the eruptive activity covering two generations, kofuji and sinfuji .In Mt. Fuji which is proud of the No.1 height of Japan, an "alpine belt" to the "lowlands belt" forms the brilliant vegetable distribution which changes with height.
    Moreover, many animals inhabit Mt. Fuji in spite of severe natural environment.
If it results in a wild bird, almost all the birds distributed over Chubu District inhabit the Mt. Fuji foot.

From the left, fujihatazao,nihonkamosika,hosigarasu
   

    The abundant and good groundwater which Mt. Fuji produces is used for many years as the domestic non-commercial water of people at the foot of a mountain, and water for agricultural use, and has played the large role also in development of industry, such as paper manufacture, chemistry, and an electronic device, in recent years.
    About 2,500 million tons per year of rain and snow fall, and if evapotranspiration is taken into consideration, to store water with an amount of Japanese of about 5,330,000 tons as groundwater is considered by Mt. Fuji.

 Kakida River springwater

    I would like to introduce the scene hung down even if a season and environment united with Mt. Fuji from now on.
    This is diamond Fuji.


    Diamond Fuji is a phenomenon in which the summit-of-the-mountain part and the sun of Mt. Fuji overlap. Since the sun looks beautiful like a diamond, it is said that it came to be called like this.
    It can observe several days . several weeks per year only at the place where certain conditions, such as an angle and distance, are fulfilled.
    The chances of observation are sunrise (diamond going up) and sunset (sinking diamond). Diamond Fuji in Fujikawa-cho is sunrise, i.e., the diamond going up.

    This is sakasa fuji.


    Yamakage reflected in the form in which Mt. Fuji carried out flip vertical to the water surface is so beautiful that he does not become language.
It is said that it loves from the beautiful figure to Japanese people more least recently.
    It is the scenery seen when the surface of a lake drops off, and the water surface is quiet and the state where there is no wave is reflected more distinctly.

    Finally he wants to introduce the most favorite scene. It is benifuji which is Mt. Fuji dyed the morning sun red.


    This is Mt. Fuji which was compared with the morning sun and dyed red by winter limitation where Mt. Fuji is covered with snow, and has held interest and surprise at the place always dyed Mt. Fuji where blue Mt. Fuji is red.

an etymology of Mt.Fuji

     It is called "Fujisan" why and it is wrapped in the veil of the mystery whether it come to write it as "Mt. Fuji." But at least many books of the solution of a riddle are published, and there is no established theory.
 
     First, why does it pronounce with "Fuji"? Various opinions which turn down "Fuji" which points out a slope and hanging down in "Buji" and the ancient Japanese which "Bu" which means fire in "Funci", "Buji", and Korean which point out the mountain of fire in Ainu language, "Buru".
  
    Next, why does it write it as "Fuji"? It is written to the account of the Hitachi national ground of the Nara period which appears first by record as "Fukuji."
It is a little behind and appears in the Ten Thousand Leaves by an "endless mountain", " Fujinoutakamine", and "Fujinoumine."
The early stages of the Heian period become the beginning being written as "Fuji."
   
    In addition, it is written as "non-death (perpetual youth and longevity)", "Fuji (there is nothing with two)", etc. A mental climate also has many opinions which ask for the origin. The ageless legendary-hermit-with-miraculous-power thought, the descent-of-the-emperor-from-the-gods tradition of Niniginomikotowhich are symbolized by Moon Princess's tale and Jyofuku tradition.
  
     Furthermore, there is also an idea of connecting to the Asama shrine faith which deified tree Hanasaki Torihime which suppresses fire.
A view that especially Chinese legendary-hermit-with-miraculous-power thought is concerned deeply is strong. It is being written that "why Mt. Fuji is FUJI Sun" was unified into "Mt. Fuji" in process of national formation of ancient Japan.
One more, a thing opinion with sufficient local Yamanashi .
"Reading" and "worth" of "the country in   Suruga of   worth of raw reading which country   Shoots and acts as Yadorigi" which appears also in the Ten Thousand Leaves are connected with "Mr. Fuji." "Reading" is "Kousui (the dead's country)."A "paddle" has a meaning of an egg. The country of worth is an ageless legendary hermit's with miraculous power ground, and was considered to be "a ground where the dead revive." They say that Seirei which touches a boundary was positioned in the country as a mountain of "non-death" and "a revival."
   
    Moreover, also in this way, it is told. The old man of Taketori and the old man called found the lovely girl out of the bamboo at a certain time.
When raised with its wife, the girl grew up to be a beautiful princess who emits a wonderful light from the body.
   
    Although five persons' Tokyo young noble proposed, the princess told on the difficult problem and young nobles have been frustrated one after another.
Although Mikado heard this rumor and took out usage to the princess's basis soon, the princess told that she was a person of the lunar world.
The day when a princess returns to the lunar world at last came on.
   
    Although Mikado dispatches many armers and tried to protect a princess, it is made aghast and can take out no hands. The princess gave the old man of Taketori the medicine , a pile, and non-death, and has ridden and returned to the vehicle of the moon. If a princess stops an old man having and it is resolute into this world, the medicine of non-death will have been burned in the alp in Suruga.
   
    Then, smoke comes to rise from the summit of the mountain, and it came to call the mountain "non-death."