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Mt Fuji, Japan









From the division
Of the heaven and the earth,
Instinct with godhead,
Lofty and noble there stood,
Rising in Suruga,
The towering cone of Fuji:
When I gaze afar
Across distant plains of heaven
The wandering sun
With all its beams is blotted out,
The shining moon
And all its light is lost to view;
The white clouds fear
To drift across the mountain face,
And in all seasons
Snow still falls upon the peak:
I shall tell the tale,
I shall talk for all my days
About Fuji’s towering cone.



Yamabe no Akahito





Translation: 
Edwin Cranston

Image:  
Dreamy Fujisan by 
Chaluntorn Preeyasombat 






















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