One Hundred Mountains of Japan by Fukada, Kyūya
One Hundred Mountains of Japan by Fukada, Kyūya

One Hundred Mountains of Japan

"The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up....
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Author: Kyūya Fukada
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Language: English
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One Hundred Mountains of Japan by Fukada, Kyūya

One Hundred Mountains of Japan

$78.35
One Hundred Mountains of Japan by Fukada, Kyūya

One Hundred Mountains of Japan

$78.35
Author: Kyūya Fukada
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up. Mighty Ontake is like that. The mountain's inexhaustible treasury of riches is like some endless storybook with its pages uncut. As one follows the rambling plot along, one is always looking forward to reading more. Every page yields things never found in other books. Ontake is that kind of mountain."

One Hundred Mountains is that kind of book. "Nowhere in the world do people hold mountains in so much regard as in Japan," observed the author, Kyūya Fukada, in the afterword to his most famous work. "Mountains have played a part in Japanese history since the country's beginnings, and they manifest themselves in every form of art. For mountains have always formed the bedrock of the Japanese soul."

In One Hundred Mountains, Fukada pays tribute to his favorite summits. Published in 1964, the book became an instant classic. Consisting of one hundred short essays, each celebrating one notable mountain and its place in Japan's traditions, the book is an elegantly written eulogy to the landscape, literature, and history that define a people. More recently, Japan's national broadcasting company has turned it into a memorable TV series.

Fukada himself was bemused by his book's success: "In the end, the one hundred mountains represent my personal choice and I make no claims for them beyond that." Yet, half a century after he set down those words, his mountains have become a cultural institution. Marked on every hiking map and enshrined in scores of spin-off books, his One Hundred Mountains are today firmly embedded in the mountain traditions they grew out of.

Now available in English for the first time, One Hundred Mountains of Japan will serve as a vade mecum to the Japanese mountains for a new cohort of hikers and mountaineers. It will also open up novel territories for students of Japan's literature, folklore, religions, and mountaineering history--in short, for mountain-lovers everywhere.

Author: Kyūya Fukada
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 12/31/2014
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780824847524

About the Author
Hood, Martin: - While living and working in Japan during the 1990s, Martin Hood visited about a third of the country's One Hundred Mountains. By chance, the first high mountain he climbed was Hakusan, the peak that presides over the birthplace of Fukada Kyūya, the author of Nihon Hyakumeizan. Now based in Switzerland, he works for an international organization and is a member of the Academic Alpine Club of Zurich.

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