Eason Chan has a very famous song, "Under Mt. Fuji", which has a lyric: Who can privately own Mt. Fuji with love?
You don't have to say that Mt. Fuji is really not completely nationalized, and its summit is really private.
In order to develop tourism, the Japanese government is painstakingly paying rent every year. Who can lovingly own Mt. Fuji?
Mt. Fuji originally belonged to the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1603, when the Tokugawa shogunate was established, they had ownership of Mt. Fuji.
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo shogunate, was the last feudal military government in Japan.
Although there has always been an emperor in Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate actually controlled the entire country. Moreover, most of the country's land belongs to their family, including Mt. Fuji.
Sure enough, those who engage in land are the most profitable and far-sighted.
Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who owned Mt. Fuji, donated the mountain to the Asama Shrine in a big way. As a result, for the next few hundred years, Asama Shrine became the private owner of Mt. Fuji.
During the Meiji Restoration, the emperor became the supreme ruler of Japan, and Japan's lands were nationalized, including Mount Fuji.
After World War II, Japan revised its new constitution, which stipulated that all previously nationalized land should be returned to the private sector. The government did so, except for Mt. Fuji.
Maybe Mt. Fuji is a bit large and well-known. A country's iconic attractions are privately owned and sound a bit too bad on the face. So the government pretended not to know anything and kept using Mt. Fuji as the government's land.
Then, Asami Shrine was not pleased.
Began to file a lawsuit hoping to get back his own Mt. Fuji.
The Japanese government thought, I don't want face? And so it dragged on. It wasn't until 2004 that all areas from 3,250 meters on Mt. Fuji to 3,776 meters at the top of the mountain belonged to the shrine.
It is estimated that the Japanese government's calculation is that it will be useless for you to return the mountain top to you.
As a result, people are not as good as heaven. Within two years, the world began to have a popular craze to climb Mount Fuji, and the government had to honestly pay rent in order to develop tourism.
So, not surprisingly, we should be able to see the following conversation.
Eason Chan: Who can privately own Mt. Fuji with love?
Asama Shrine: Me!
When it comes to Japanese tourism impressions, Xiao Ou's first thought is cherry blossoms and Mt. Fuji, so Mt. Fuji is a must-visit spot for Japanese tourism, and you can enjoy cherry blossoms or climb Mt. Fuji to Mt. Fuji.
However, these two projects cannot be carried out at the same time, because the best time to enjoy cherry blossoms in Japan is from February to May every year, from south to north; The best time to climb Mt. Fuji is in July and August every year, and it is only at this time that the snow at the summit slowly melts.
Mount Fuji in Japan is the spiritual totem of the Japanese people, known as "Shengyue" and "Fugaku", and Japanese poets have praised it with verses such as "Jade Fan Hanging upside Down in the East Sea and the Sky" and "Fuji White Snow Reflecting the Rising Sun". At 3,775 meters above sea level, Mt. Fuji is Japan's highest peak and the world's most famous active volcano, currently in dormancy. Mt. Fuji has erupted 18 times since it was written, the most recent of which was in 1707, 311 years ago, and since the internal activity of the volcano has not completely stopped, it is possible to erupt at any time.
Mt. Fuji is cone-shaped, covered with snow all year round, and has a beautiful body, and there is a touching beauty in the blue sky and white clouds, against the background of the lake, when the cherry blossoms fall. This kind of beauty has a profound impact on the hearts of Japanese people who pursue perfection, so Mt. Fuji, as the highest peak in Japan, has too many national feelings and carries too much Japanese culture.
What surprised Xiao Ou was that although Mt. Fuji was so prominent that it had even risen to the level of a national symbol, Mt. Fuji was not a national public attraction in Japan, and it did not belong entirely to state-owned land, because the ownership of Mt. Fuji above 3360 meters above sea level belonged to private land. Which "private" has such great power?
The earliest ownership of Mt. Fuji belonged to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the shogunate era, and he later gave the land above 3,360 meters of Mt. Fuji to the Senma-ji Temple located on Mt. Fuji. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Mt. Fuji had been nationalized for a time, and it was not until 2004 that the Japanese government returned the land above Mt. Fuji to Senma-dera Temple.
Because Mt. Fuji is a symbol of Japan, a large number of tourists come to visit and see it every year, so the Japanese government has to rent Mt. Fuji from Senmaji Temple at a huge rent. As a result, the Japanese government has the legal right to use Mount Fuji, but the ownership is still not.
Seeing this, you can't help but ask, what is the origin of this Asama Temple? Why did the Japanese government return the ownership of Mt. Fuji to it? Xiao Ou also has the same question, does anyone know?
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