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Definition of Mount Asama

1. Noun. A volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount Asama

Literary usage of Mount Asama

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. In the Land of the Cherry Blossoms by Maude Whitmore Madden (1915)
"Mount Asama, 8200 feet high, in Shinano Province, Central Japan, is perhaps the most active, the most famous, and, because of its regular, gradual slope, ..."

2. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"... where bending southward it runs in an unbroken line from Mount Asama in Shinano to the Imperial forests of Fuji and Amagi lying between the provinces of ..."

3. A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1898)
"Asama-yama, " Mount Asama." Bandai-san, "Mount Bandai." 57. The nouns aida, "interval;" hazu, " necessity;" foil, "time; and tokoro, "place," often assume ..."

4. Every-day Japan by Arthur Lloyd (1909)
"It had been destroyed several times by volcanic eruptions from its neighbour, Mount Asama, and what was left of its ancient prosperity (if it ever had any) ..."

5. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"The lofty range stretching southwards from Mount Asama forms the water-parting between the Pacific and the Sea of Japan. But owing to the disposition of the ..."

6. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"The lofty range stretching southwards from Mount Asama forms the water-parting between the Pacific and the Sea of Japan. But owing to the disposition of the ..."

7. In the Land of the Cherry Blossoms by Maude Whitmore Madden (1915)
"Mount Asama, 8200 feet high, in Shinano Province, Central Japan, is perhaps the most active, the most famous, and, because of its regular, gradual slope, ..."

8. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"... where bending southward it runs in an unbroken line from Mount Asama in Shinano to the Imperial forests of Fuji and Amagi lying between the provinces of ..."

9. A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1898)
"Asama-yama, " Mount Asama." Bandai-san, "Mount Bandai." 57. The nouns aida, "interval;" hazu, " necessity;" foil, "time; and tokoro, "place," often assume ..."

10. Every-day Japan by Arthur Lloyd (1909)
"It had been destroyed several times by volcanic eruptions from its neighbour, Mount Asama, and what was left of its ancient prosperity (if it ever had any) ..."

11. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"The lofty range stretching southwards from Mount Asama forms the water-parting between the Pacific and the Sea of Japan. But owing to the disposition of the ..."

12. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"The lofty range stretching southwards from Mount Asama forms the water-parting between the Pacific and the Sea of Japan. But owing to the disposition of the ..."

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