1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Fuji

​FUJI (Fuji-san, Fujiyama, Fusiyama), a celebrated mountainof Japan, standing W.S.W. of Tokyo, its base being about 70 m.by rail from that city. It rises to a height of 12,395 ft. and itssouthern slopes reach the shore of Suruga Bay. It is a cone ofbeautifully simple form, the more striking to view because itstands isolated; but its summit is not conical, being broken bya crater some 2000 ft. in diameter, for Fuji is a quiescent volcano.Small outbursts of steam are still to be observed at some points.An eruption is recorded so lately as the first decade of the 18thcentury. The mountain is the resort of great numbers of pilgrims(see also Japan).