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Sengen Jinja
Many Sengen shrines, VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
including this main
one at Fuji-Yoshida, Practical Information
can be found around Shizuoka & Yamanashi prefecture.
Fuji. The inner sanctum n Fuji-Yoshida (0555) 22-7000.
_ Fuji-Yoshida Fire Festival
of Sengen shrines is
on the crater rim at (Aug 26 & 27). ∑ city.fujiyoshida.
the summit. They are yamanashi.jp/div/english/html
dedi cated to the deity Transport
of the mountain. £ Fuji-Yoshida, Kawaguchi-ko,
Gotenba, Mishima (Tokaido
Shinkansen), or Fujinomiya. @
summer only, from all stns to the
nearest 5th stage, also direct from
Tokyo (Shinjuku stn W side or
Hamamatsu-cho) to Kawagu chi-
ko, Gotenba, and Lake Yama naka.
Otsuki and Tokyo
Chuo Expressway Fuji-Yoshida, the
traditional pilgrim base,
has old inns, and waterfalls Mount Fuji in Art
for ritual cleansing before
the climb. Mount Fuji’s graceful, almost symmetrical form, its
changing appearance at different seasons and times
of day, and its dominance over the landscape have
Lake Yamanaka is made it both a symbol of Japan and a popular
Oshino popular for waterskiing subject for artists. The mountain features in various
and swimming. series of 19th-century wood -block prints: Katsushika
Hokusai (1760–1849) and Ando Hiroshige (1797–
1858) both published
Subashiri trail series called Thirty-Six
is 4 hours 30 Views of Mount Fuji,
Lake Yamanaka minutes up and Hiroshige also
from the 5th depicted Fuji in his
stage, and 3 Fifty-Three Stages of
hours down. the Tokaido published
in 1833–4. It often
appears in the
background of prints
• 5th Tokyo of Edo (Tokyo); it is
stage still sometimes visible
among Tokyo’s high-
rises even today. In
• 5th stage other arts, Mount
Fuji is echoed in
decorative motifs, for
instance on kimonos,
in wood carvings, and
Gotenba •
even in the shape of One of Hiroshige’s Thirty-Six Views
window frames. of Mount Fuji
Tomei Expressway

Gotenba trail is 8 hours Mishima
up from the 5th stage,
and 3 hours down.
Beneath the Wave off Kanagawa from Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views
0 kilometers 5
of Mount Fuji
0 miles 3
For keys to symbols see back flap

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