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Usage examples of asama.

It was still summer, to be sure, but up here in the Asama kogen, the highlands of the northern Japanese Alps, it was always cold.

Still, he was only human and, once, on the high ridge of Asama-yama's southern flank, he almost broke down, feeling an overwhelming urge to weep in fear and frustration.

She might have learned Kan-aku na ninjutsu with Nicholas's cousin Saigo, at the ryu in Kumamoto, but it was here in the Asama kogen that she had learned jaho, the magic of the miko.

Great drifts of blue-grey fog billowed over the sloping volcanic shoulder of Asama-yama, obscuring for minutes at a time entire sections of the valley.

It had seemed close enough when Nicholas was picking his way down the rubble-strewn slope of Mount Asama.

It dominated a glen, a private sector of the alpine valley, from which it overlooked Asama-yama, as well as much of the entire Hida Range.

I thought Akiko's sensei, Kyoki, would help me because I suspected that he was tanjian, but I discovered him dead, flayed alive in his castle in the Asama highlands.

He did not return to Asama, where he assumed Shisei would be waiting for him.

Senjin was certain that he had effectively destroyed Nicholas's one avenue to salvation when he had ritually murdered Kyoki, the tanjian living in the castle in the Asama highlands.

Kyoki's castle lay nestled in a glen shaggy with white birch and larch, acres of bright, blooming giant azaleas and stands of peach trees, one thousand meters above sea level in Asama kogen.

The kogen were dominated by 2,500-meter Asama-yama, an active volcano whose upper slopes were kept sere and utterly barren by frequent eruptions.

On the opposite side of the highlands from where Kyoki's castle stood, sweeping northeast off Asama-yama's skirt, was Onio-shidashi, a black, blasted lavascape aptly named after the monstrous outpouring of the earth's depths in 1783.

Every moment of Akiko's time in Asama was mapped out and had to be assiduously accounted for.

Coming down off the frosty Asama kogen, mingling with tourists and Tokyo residents alike in the rolling parklands, it occurred to her that the person she missed most was Saigo, that Kyoki's lessons had been her lover for seven years because Saigo could not be.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux SUMMER, PRESENT Asama Highlands/Washington/East Bay Bridge/Tokyo/The Hodaka 'Tanjian.