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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Fuji

mountain in Japan, also Fujiyama (with Japanese yama "mountain"), of unknown origin. Some of the senses that have been suggested are "prosperous man," "fire-spitter," "incomparable," and "beauty of the long slope hanging in the sky."

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fuji

n. 1 plain spun silk fabric 2 A Nigerian musical genre

WordNet
fuji
  1. n. shrubby Japanese tree having pale pink blossoms [syn: fuji cherry, Prunus incisa]

  2. an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages [syn: Mount Fuji, Fujiyama, Fujinoyama, Fuji-san]

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Fuji may refer to:

Fuji (film)

Fuji is a 1974 art film which explores director Robert Breer's artistic rendition of a train ride past Japan's Mt. Fuji, using line drawings, rotoscope and live action.

In 2002, Fuji was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Fuji (apple)

The Fuji apple is an apple hybrid developed by growers at the Tohoku Research Station (農林省園芸試験場東北支場) in Fujisaki, Aomori, Japan, in the late 1930s, and brought to market in 1962. It originated as a cross between two American apple varieties—the Red Delicious and old Virginia Ralls Genet (sometimes cited as "Rawls Jennet") apples. According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States.

It is named for the town of Fujisaki (the location of Tohoku Research Station).

Fuji (comics)

Toshiro Misawa, also known as Fuji, is a comic book superhero in the Stormwatch series, first appearing in Stormwatch #1. He has immense size and strength as well as the ability to control the density of his body granted by his containment suit. However, he is unable to control his molecular structure without it and he would revert into a radioactive cloud of plasma, possibly dying in the process without some other form of containment.

Fuji (spacecraft)

Fuji () was a manned spacecraft of the space capsule kind, proposed by Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) Advanced mission Research center in December 2001. The Fuji design was ultimately not adopted.

Fuji (train)

The was a sleeper train that formerly operated between Tokyo and Ōita in Japan. Operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) and classified as a limited express service, it was discontinued from the start of the revised timetable on 14 March 2009.

Fuji (planchette writing)

Fuji is a method of "planchette writing", or "spirit writing", that uses a suspended sieve or tray to guide a stick which writes Chinese characters in sand or incense ashes.

Usage examples of "fuji".

I have no intention of climbing Fuji and accounting for myself, to God or to anything else.

If the deities have any questions they can come down from Fuji and ask me.

I find a place of twisted pines along the Tokaido, and I halt to view Fuji through them.

I am very weary, but I want to see Fuji emerge from the fog which has risen.

The hells beneath, the heavens above, Fuji between-way station, stopover, terminal.

It is difficult to locate a bridge approachable from an angle proper to simulate the view of Fuji beneath it, in the print.

Now it seems as if Fuji supports the bridge and without his presence it will be broken like Bifrost, preventing the demons of the past from attacking our present Asgard-or perhaps the demons of the future from storming our ancient Asgard.

In the meantime I drink this moment with a deep draught of salty air, telling myself that the ocean is the ocean, the fisherman is a fisherman, and Fuji is only a mountain.

The rest of the day, as I journeyed here, to the foot of Fuji, I felt surprisingly well.

As Fuji grows before me the man glances in our direction, hands something to the others, then turns and ambles away.

I am in the area and Fuji properly situated, but the torii must be long gone and I have no way of knowing whether there is a sunken temple out there.

The sky is indeed overcast but there is no wind, Fuji is darker, more clearly delineated than in the print, there are no struggling pedestrians in sight.

I have reached my tenth station and I still do not know whether Fuji is giving me strength or taking it from me.

The print shows a big cryptameria tree, Fuji looming behind it, crowned with smoke.

The fields look like raked sand, the hills like rocks, Fuji a boulder.