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One Hundred Mountains: On and around Fukada Kyūya's Nihon Hyakumeizan
A blog about mountains 'n stuff, inspired by Fukada Kyūya's Nihon Hyakumeizan (1964), the classic book about the One Hundred Mountains of Japan. Much of this blog is based on the English translation published in 2014.
1. Meizan of science (based on NPO website)
Here is a timeline on how Mt Fuji has served as a platform for science and weather observations, with links to related posts
2. History of the Mt Fuji summit stations
Sato Junichi and the summit station
How Satō Junichi revived the dream of an all-year weather station on Mt Fuji
How Japan's mountain-top meteorologists rode out the dark years of early Shōwa
The precise origins of the radar station atop Mt Fuji are veiled in mystery
3. Summit duty: memoir by meteorologist Hirai Yasuyo (translation)
A memoir of life on Mt Fuji by Hirai Yasuyo, former head of the summit meteorological observatory
4. NHK’s drama about Nonaka Itaru and Chiyoko
NHK revives an epic story of mid-winter survival atop Mt Fuji
5. Another mountain:
Another mountain (1):
Getting to know Japan's top volcano in mid-winter season.
Another mountain (2): Itaru Nonaka’s winter ascent of Mt Fuji
Continued: climbing Mt Fuji in mid-winter has a long and eventful history. Few succeed on the first attempt...
Another mountain (3): Itaru Nonaka’s winter ascent of Mt Fuji
Fuji in the cold season continued: the first mid-winter ascent was made by a young samurai-meteorologist who wanted to build a weather observatory on the summit
6. The professor of clouds: Abe Masanao
Chance encounter with a man who spent nineteen years studying Mt Fuji's weather
7. Meiji-era foreign scientists on Mt Fuji*
Behind the curve: John Milne and Mt Fuji
The o-yatoi who weighed the earth: Thomas Mendenhall and
Mt. Fuji
Summarised from a (we hope) forthcoming full translation (not Project Hyakumeizan's) of Fuyo Nikki. This is Chiyoko's own account of the Nonaka attempt to overwinter on Mt Fuji. It was first published as a series of magazine articles and then collected together with her husband's Fuji Annai (Guide to Mt Fuji).