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	Encyclopedia: Mount Mitake
		Mount Mitake (å¾¡å²³å±± mitakesan) is a mountain in Tokyo, Japan.
		Mount Mitake (Mitakesan) is one of the many highlights of the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, which covers more than 1250 square kilometers of forested mountains, hills, gorges and some rural towns in the prefectures of Yamanashi, Saitama, Nagano and Tokyo.
		It is located on the Southern Honshu Island and is the highest mountain in Japan, rising to 12,388 feet (3,776 m) near the Pacific coast in Yamanashi and Shizuoka ken, 100 km west of Tokyo, with the apex broken by a cone-shaped crater 610 m (2000 ft) in diameter.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mount-Mitake (386 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Mount Mitake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mount Mitake (御岳山 mitakesan) is a mountain in Tokyo (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan), Japan (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building).
		It stands 929 meters (Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity) tall.
		On the mountain is a Shinto (The native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan) shrine (A place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_mitake.htm (85 words)

	Tokyo Travel: Mitakesan (Mount Mitake)
		An excellent hiking map, which shows the extensive network of hiking trails in the Okutama region, is available for free at the Mitake Visitor Center (closed on Mondays), halfway between the upper cablecar station and the shrine.
		The whole trip from Shinjuku to JR Mitake Station costs 890 Yen one way and is fully covered by the Japan Rail Pass.
		Once at Mitake Station, take the bus to the lower station of the Mitake cablecar (10 minutes, 270 Yen one way, about 2 buses/hour).
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e3036.html (465 words)

	Earlham College-Geology 211-Mt. Fuji
		Mount Fuji was depicted by the famous Ukiyoe painter, Hokusai Katsushika, in his series of prints entitled, "36 Views from Mount Fuji".
		Lava from Mount Fuji either flows through breaks in the wall or issue from fissures on the flank of the cone.
		Mount Fuji is located in what is known as the "Ring of Fire".
	www.earlham.edu /~steelem/mtfuji.htm (1068 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		From the hiking trails on Mount Mitake you are dwarfed by the towering and wonderous canopy of cyprus and cedar trees.
		Mount Mitake — or as the Japanese say, “Mitake-san” — is probably the most well-known attraction in Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, Tokyo’s closest national park.
		While nowhere near as strenuous as climbing Mount Fuji, for example, the hike is steep at times, both on the uphill and downhill, and there’s even some rock scrambling involved.
	www.stripesonline.com /article.asp?section=103&article=16833 (834 words)

	Yamanashi Travel: Shosenkyo Gorge
		Mitake Shosenkyo near the city of Kofu, is considered Japan's most beautiful gorge.
		It is part of the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, which covers more than 1250 square kilometers of forested mountains, valleys and some rural towns in the prefectures of Yamanashi, Saitama, Nagano and Tokyo.
		The Shosenkyo is particularly beautiful and well visited during the autumn leaf season, which typically reaches its peak from late October to mid November.
	67.15.104.67 /japan-guide.com/e/e6952.html (417 words)

	Interchangeable Lens Mounts - Third Party Lens Advantage? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A fixed mount third party lens has the same sort of lens mount as the OEM lens, which cannot be changed except by the factory or a lens repairman.
		The new autofocus mounts obsolete the older AF and MF lens mounts.
		The original T mount is long dis-continued, so many people simply refer to the T-2 as a `T.' The difference between the two is that the old one does not have the ability to rotate once the lens is mounted.
	medfmt.8k.com /third/mounts.html (17166 words)

	Mt Fuji Japan
		Mount Fuji last erupted on November 24, 1707 and has been sleeping since then, but still the geologists regard it as an active volcano.
		‘The Holy Mountain’, is what Mount Fuji is called as and its name of Ainu origin implies “everlasting life.” Thousands of pilgrims visit the mountain from all parts of Japan and there are a number of shrines and temples are on its slopes.
		The splendor of Mount Fuji has been viewed by millions and has been praised and written about by numerous travel writers, poets and presented in different art forms by painters all over the world.
	www.asianartmall.com /mtfujiarticle.htm (523 words)

	WSC: PHYS 0103/0104 Spring, 2005 - Mt. Fuji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As a result of tourist Mount Fuji is highly polluted.
		Mount Fuji is located in the "Ring of Fire." The ring of fire borders the Pacific plate as well as other plates, and there is a lot of volcanic activity in these spots due to the Pacific plate subducting.
		Mount Fuji is a strato-volcano and is made up of pyroclastic debris and viscous lava.
	biology.wsc.ma.edu /physicalscience/young/pgeol/current/webposters/fuji/fuji.html (346 words)

	Mount Fuji Japan, Fuji San (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mount Fuji is the symbol not only of Shizuoka prefecture but also of Japanese scenery as a whole.
		The Ko-Fuji volcano formed the base of the current Mt. Fuji and is believed to have been active between approximately 10,000 and 100,000 years ago.
		Details about climbing Mount Fuji can be found here.
	www.japanesetea.co.uk /mountfuji.htm (89 words)

	Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		See and Do It is possible to hike Mitsumine and Mitake either separately as day trips, or as a full day's hike along the trail connecting the two.
		Take a bus from Mitake station to the Mitake cablecar (10 min, ¥270), then the cable car up to the shrine (¥1090 return).
		There are a number of basic food stalls and tea houses on the short trail connecting Mitsumine-guchi to the cable car station.
	wikitravel.org /en/Chichibu-Tama-Kai_National_Park (426 words)

	Tokyo - Tokyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - - - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The highest mountain in Tokyo, Mount Kumotori, is 2,017 m high; other mountains in Tokyo include Mount Takasu (1737 m), Mount Odake (1266 m), and Mount Mitake (929 m).
		Fuji Matsuri (wisteria festival) at Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Koto-ku.
		Hinode Matsuri (sunrise festival) at Mitake Shrine in Ome.
	home.for.sale.in.aragona.gsh-real-estate.com /0/1/en.wikipedia/5/wiki/Tokyo (3572 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mount Ontake
		Mount Ontake is an active volcano located around 150km north-east of Nagoya in central Japan.
		It is also known as Mount Mitake and Mount Otake, however it should not be confused with the Mount Mitake, the mountain in Tokyo with a shintu shrine.
		Not known to be active until 1979, it then went underwent a series of eruptions lasting about a year.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mount_Ontake (97 words)

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		These people were conspicuous for the extent of their asceticism and their open antipathy toward traditional Buddhist institutions, those largely associated with state rituals and with aristocrat court families and the ruling elite.
		When he was once travelling from Kumano to O\\d\\ba6()\\s\\up6(\_)\\d\\ fo1()mine heading towards Mount Mitake, he lost his directions.
		Originally I was a disciple of Priest Kikei of To\\d\\ba5()\\s\\up4(\_)\\d\\fo1()to of Mount Hiei.
	maven.smith.edu /~nguyen/Lotus/Files/miraculo.rtf (10842 words)

	Pictures of Japan - Part II
		Mitake is a small town in one of the gorges of the Tama river (which is one of the major water sources for Tokyo).
		I was amazed that my camera produced this relatively good picture of the wood carvings on the Aoi-jinja shrine on Mount Sogaku-san.
		Finally, we are leaving the Mitake area and go to Kamakura, which is most famous for its bronze Buddha statue which you can see in my 1999 pictures, but has a wealth of other nice temples and shrines worth visiting.
	wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de /~cbauer/japan2 (2842 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Chichibu-Tama National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This national park is divided into the Chichibu and Oku-Tama regions, which are connected by a hiking trail that passes over Mount Mitsumine.
		The park is also home to two of Japan's most beautiful ravines, Mitake Shosenkyo and Nishizawa Keikoku.
		The true splendor of these ravines is evident in autumn, when the leaves change colors.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/1915llt.htm (182 words)

	Brush Drawings and Hanshita-e
		From a series of such studies showing women in various attitudes, smoking; playing musical instruments; adjusting hair, etc. The design cut out and mounted onto a larger sheet of Japanese paper, 10.5 x 8 inches.
		This diary is fully discussed and catalogued in The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige, Edward F. Strange, Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1925, pps 71-82 and 122-123 and illustrates two double pages.
		Devil’s Plain on the way to Mount Mitake, Koshu or Kai Province.
	www.japaneseprints-london.com /brush_drawings_and_hanshita-e.htm (1975 words)

	Memories of the 1940's (1996-1998 archive): Re: Todays students knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Then, in 1975 I was a professor for the University of Southern California and I was asked to teach graduate courses in study centers in Tokyo, on Okinawa, in Taiwan and in the Philippines.
		Except for going up to Mount Mitake near Tokyo to see the mountain and the shrine used as a code word by japanese bombers after successfully atacking Pearl Harbor, there was nothing in Tokyo that reminded me of the war.
		Driving north from Manila I came through San Fernando and I saw the place where the survivors of the Bataan death march where loaded into freight cars, and I followed the rails, knowing that for every two or three rail ties I walked over, one prisoner on board of that train died.
	youth.net /memories/hypermail/0463.html (1317 words)

	Landscapes
		The set was modelled on Hiroshige’s 100 Views of Edo but only 34 prints were ever produced by the publisher Kobayashi Tetsujiro in 1884/5.
		Very fine impression of the first edition: On subsequent editions the characters on the lantern (which read “Iseya”) beneath the kago are changed; the break top left of title cartouche shows strongly, and pigments are used which do not oxidise on the path and background.
		Hira no bosetsu, “Evening Snow on Mount Hira” from the first Omi Hakkei set published by Eisendo and Hoeido, c1834.
	www.japaneseprints-london.com /landscapes.htm (4236 words)

	Third Party Lens Manufacturers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The T-4 interchangeable mount was also popular in the Vivitar version known as TX interchangeable mounts.
		It felt very good to use, very well damped with a heavy mount, and optically was quite a nice lens but wasn't up to the standard of the other Leica lenses I had and I eventually sold it.
		In Germany it was sold with M-42 thread mount and the same meter coupling as the ZI SL706, and in the USA with Rollei QBM.
	medfmt.8k.com /third/mfg.html (16900 words)

	Adherents.com
		Members of Jikko Kyo and Fuso Kyo worship Mount Fuji...; Mitake Kyo centers around the worship of Mount Ontake...
		Marx would no doubt have been horrified to see his face mounted on gigantic placards beside Stalin or Mao, but in North Korea--where the cult of personality has been carried to its furthest extremes--Marx, Engels and Lenin have all been dropped from the pantheon.
		The people are told that Kim Jong Il was born on Mount Paekdu like a mythic god, instead of in Siberia as Western analysts contend.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_390.html (3633 words)

	Strange - The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige
		He can hardly have failed, also, to collect much material for the Views of Mount Fuji; for Kofu is a point from which many excursions can be made affording superb points of view; and, among them, the descent of the Fujikawa rapids, which, as noted by Mr.
		Kojima, his sketch-books prove him to have made, as well as a trip to Mount Mitake, once famous for its magnificent temples.
		While he was staying in Kofu it seems that he made the trip ascending to Mitake and Minobu and shot down the Fujikawa rapid.
	www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/strange/chapter_08.htm (6057 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » Satsuma-Iwojima
		It is volcanic in origin and the big volcano is Mount Oyama.
		A lava flow in 1940 killed 11 people, and other eruptions occurred in 1962 and 1983.
		In 2000, Mount Oyama began another series of eruptions and the island had to be evacuated.
	www.googlesightseeing.com /2005/07/25/miyakejima-island (184 words)

	virtual insanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Our bodies were aching all over after the difficult hike to Mt Mitake.
		The traditional hair ornaments museum, the art museum which we wanted to visit were oyasumi (resting).
		Then, from there is this roadblock, a choice to two methods to the cable car station, either a 10 minutes bus ride (boring but fast), or a 50 minutes hike by foot.
	www.livejournal.com /users/yishengo (4690 words)

	* mwr yokosuka japan * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This bike trip is for beginner to intermediate riders.
		Team composition follows Eco Challenge rules – there must be at least one member of the opposite sex on each team.
		On this 19 mile journey, you will earn your reward by covering all arenas of mountain biking.
	www.aonmedia.com /mwr/leisure/outdoorrec.html (656 words)

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		We had dinner at BLDY in Kichijoji and then went to karaoke.
		On the last weekend of September, I went once again with the University Fellowship Organization to Mount Mitake.
		Camp Mitake (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
	www.angelfire.com /sports/clay/fall.html (660 words)

	garden route guest house (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		[edit] National Parks There are two national parks in West Tokyo: Chichibu-Tama National Park, located in Nishitama and spilling over into Yamanashi and Saitama Prefectures, and Meiji no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park, located around Mount Takao to the south of Hachioji.
		The Display Greenhouse (1970): this is in a modern style, but is unobtrusively sited behind the First Duke's greenhouse.
		Kett was a Norfolk landowner from Wymondham who lead the peasant's revolt in 1549 in the name of the common man against the corrupt Norfolk landowners.
	www.document-sugery.co.uk /garden-route-guest-house.aspx (13825 words)

	Strange - The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige
		Shin Hakke and Take [Peak and a Castle].
		[Distant view of Mount Myogi, Matsuida, Kisokaido, 17.]
		Nakano Take Embo [Distant view of Nakano Peak].
	www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/strange/chapter_12.htm (1554 words)

	Adherents.com
		It was organised in the first half of the nineteenth century by Shimoyama, Osuke as a devotional association to encourage the ritual ascent of Mt. Mitake, popularly konwn as ontake-san ('Great Mountain'), in central Japan, site of a long-standing tradition of mountain worship.
		The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions.
		Members of Jikko Kyo and Fuso Kyo worship Mount Fuji...; Mitake Kyo [or 'Ontake-kyo'] centers around the worship of Mount Ontake...
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_487.html (2586 words)

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