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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As you are approaching Mt. Fuji on the Japanese tour bus, your tour operator gets a bit excited. She starts saying in Japanese, “Mt. Fuji is the most revered mountain in Japan.” As you look out the window, she continues in Japanese, “It’s an active volcano, though it hasn’t erupted in a few hundred years. The Japanese love this mountain so much that they teach all Japanese children a song about it in the third grade. Do you want to learn that song?” As you scream out in your head in Japanese, “No!” you hear a chorus of “Yes” in Japanese around you. As the tour leader starts singing in Japanese, you look at your travel companion, roll your eyes, and say in Japanese, “Now this song is going to be stuck in my head the rest of our trip.” Your companion looks at you, smiles, and starts singing the song to you in Japanese!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Songs lesson will teach you the verses of a popular Japanese song that praises the Japanese mountain Mt. Fuji. You’ll be inspired to visit this Japanese landmark after listening to this song! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

 

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33 Responses to “Japanese Songs #3 - Fuji no Yama”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san,
What did you think about this song about Mt. Fuji? Does it capture the essence of this majestic mountain? :smile:

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aish says:

interesting one!!
Very much capturin Fuji-sama

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Yana says:

Utsukushi desu

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Karen says:

この歌はすごいね!
私は四月日本へ行きます。ぜひ富士山をいきますよ!

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Roxy says:

Thank you for show me this song

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Mikal says:

I really liked it
Thanks for sharing.

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Jessi says:

aishさん,
Yes, doesn’t it capture Fuji-san very well? :smile:

Yanaさん,
Utsukushii desu ne!

Karenさん,
四月に日本に来るんですね!ぜひ、富士山に行ってみてください :mrgreen:

Roxyさん,
You’re very welcome!

Mikalさん,
Glad to hear that you liked it!!
You’re welcome.

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Marcus says:

Yes, that was great! Thank you!

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Cherish says:

This was a great song :cool: ,
I really like it alot, but I just wondering will you be showing the video too?

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Fierce Gyoza says:

I really liked the videos too, there were a great learning boost to reading comprehension, to hear the song and follow the words.

Can you also please tell us how many songs will be in the series?

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Mayumi says:

Cherish-san and Fierce Gyoza-san,

The video for this song is coming soon! :wink: Sorry to keep you waiting.
We are glad to know that you guys liked the song videos!

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Ercan says:

Thank you for this song! I will learn it and sing next time when I am in Japan :smile: I am sure Nihonjin will be surprised seeing a Gaijin singing this song hehehehe…They will make this sound …eeeeeeeee….I love Japan :wink:

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Christian says:

三番目の歌ありがとう。いつも楽しんでいますよ。次の歌とビデオを楽しみね。ジャッパニーズポッド101は世界(せかい)ーの練習。  :wink:

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Christian says:

次の日本の旅に富士山の上に上りたい。

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Jessi says:

Ercanさん,
They probably would be surprised if you started singing this song! :lol: Thanks for commenting!

Christianさん,
コメントありがとうございます :dogeza: これからのsong lessonを楽しみにしてください!
Are both comments yours? ^^ I’ve never climbed Mt. Fuji either, but I’d like to some day!

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Liz21 says:

As a musician, as a music teacher, and as a Japanese learner, I think it’s wonderful that you are doing songs now! Songs are great because each word is nice and slow. Song lyrics are usually poetic, too, so that’s a bonus. I’m looking forward to more songs like this and all kinds of songs!! :grin:

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Jessi says:

Liz21さん,
Thank you for your feedback! :mrgreen: I also think songs are a great (and fun!) way to pick up a language. Hope you enjoy the future song lessons as well ;)

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Cherish says:

Thank you for posting the video… It really has made my morning… the pictures are stunning. :smile:

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Jessi says:

Cherishさん,
We’re glad you enjoyed it!! :kokoro:

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Mizuhito1 says:

I liked the song, but I thought the pictures this time were distracting.
Other than that, it was great!! :grin:

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Kaymac says:

These little songs help me very much, since they get stuck in my head! :cool:

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Raichu says:

I haven’t listened to the songs yet. However I’ll make an effort to do so. I have learned so much Japanese through songs.

Sometimes if I forget a word, I replay a song that has the word in it in my mind so I can recall the word. I wonder if anyone else does that?

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Mika says:

I liked that song very much. I’m still a newbie to Japanese, so I can’t yet read the lyrics. Could someone tell what they are in romanji? Thank you!

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Josh Stanley says:

Hi! Here is something I don’t understand about the kanji. I noticed in all the songs I have looked at so far that the kanji is written above the character below it. Do you have to write all the characters below and above or can you write either if that makes any sense.

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Jessi says:

Hi Josh!
What you’re seeing are hiragana characters above the kanji that indicate how to read it (this is called furigana). In normal Japanese writing, these characters aren’t usually there above the kanji - they can be added if the text is geared towards someone who can’t read kanji yet (children, etc). In this case, our videos are for Japanese learners, so we have put furigana above all of the kanji.
Hope that helps!

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Josh Stanley says:

Ah, okay. So in other words I would have to write the kanji. If I didn’t feel comfortable writing the kanji right now, could I substitute the furigana in for the kanji?

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Josh Stanley says:

Also would someone explain to me what a kanji’s yomi is? Or more simply put what is yomi?

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Josh Stanley says:

And do you guys have any lessons that have to do with the Japanese sentence order? I get really confused by it. Sorry, lots of questions I know but I’m curious.

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Josh Stanley says:

Okay, so by searching the site I found out what yomi is, but I looked in the Basic Japanese video lessons and I couldn’t find anything on Japanese sentence structure. Help! What can I do?

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Richard says:

この曲はとても美しいです

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Richard says:

美しいの歌

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Josh Stanley says:

Hi! I am trying to practice my kanji writing. I write the kanji first and then its furigana so that I know all of its readings. I am using something that’s voice-acted, but that, obviously, doesn’t come with furigana. I also have a book in Japanese that does come with furigana and I have seen that although kanji come together to make a word, one part of a overall word might come with one furigana and the other part may come with two. (example: jibun. the first kanji that makes jibun is ji, the second bun.) How can I be able to tell how many furigana two or more consecutive kanji should ‘come with’ if I were to separate them to know their individual readings? Is there a trick to being able to do so, or should one be able to tell right off the bat?

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William says:

:shock: I kindive remember this, Fuji no yama is intersting.
It is such a pretty song :mrgreen: Arigato gozaimashita
for making it so pretty japanese pod 101

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