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Fuji from Kashiwabara
Unknown, 1912, Photograph, Postcard
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Fuji from Kashiwabara
Fuji from Kashiwabara
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Item no
16646
Title
Fuji from Kashiwabara
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1912
Size
9.0 x 14.0 cm
Type
Photograph
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Postcard
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Mount Fuji is an active volcano but is classified as having a low risk of eruption; the last eruption was during the Edo period in 1707. According to an old chronicle, people established a shrine on top of the mountain to pacify the eruptions and this was officially acknowledged by the government in 853. Towards the end of the Heian period (794-1192), the ideas of Shinto and Buddhism were combined, and people began to climb Mt. Fuji because they believed that if they climbed the mountain their wishes might come true.
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