izumo-fuji

Updated: July 21, 2025

At the first approach of winter it will in one night become all blanched from foot to crest; and then its snowy pyramid so much resembles that Sacred Mountain, often compared by poets to a white inverted fan, half opened, hanging in the sky, that it is called Izumo-Fuji, 'the Fuji of Izumo. But it is really in Hoki, not in Izumo, though it cannot be seen from any part of Hoki to such advantage as from here.

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