tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618037172759094056.post4003970780463947734..comments2024-03-28T22:18:49.598+01:00Comments on One Hundred Mountains: New is oldProject Hyakumeizanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04260637418886330553noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618037172759094056.post-18129829595797381302013-05-10T21:09:16.516+02:002013-05-10T21:09:16.516+02:00Wes: interesting that the "Shinhyakumeizan&qu...Wes: interesting that the "Shinhyakumeizan" are acknowledged with a summit marker atop Iinoyama. Incidentally, the new list is also mentioned in an online geology guide to the mountain that you can find here:-<br /><br />http://www.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/~hasegawa/geositePDF/14iinoyama.pdf<br /><br />The authors, at a local university, seem to have been inspired to write up this guide partly because of the Shinhyakumeizan listing. So all this Hundred Mountains retooling is having some beneficial side-effects, by calling less famous "famous mountains" into the limelight and inducing folk to write them up. Now maybe somebody should write up Mt Rokko...Project Hyakumeizanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04260637418886330553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618037172759094056.post-80423885997468404302013-05-09T21:12:48.552+02:002013-05-09T21:12:48.552+02:00An interesting choice of peaks, but it seems to me...An interesting choice of peaks, but it seems to me that Iwasaki san is just trying to "cash in" on the popularity of the Hyakumeizan. He could have easily called them the Iwasaki-meizan if he wanted. The interesting thing on Mt. Iino is that there's a concrete summit post that actually says "Shinhyakumeizan". That was how I initially found out about this alternative list.<br /><br />Yama-kei have also cashed in immensely on the Hyakumeizan by creating their own versions of the Hokkaido Hyakumeizan, Kansai Hyakumeizan, and Kyushu Hyakumeizan.<br /><br />Where will it stop? Perhaps the publishing company will try to patent the Hyakumeizan name and create a list for every single prefecture? <br /><br />If I were to create a list of my 100 Favourite Mountains in Japan, I think it would differ a lot from both Iwasaki and Fukada's list......but maybe that's the point. Mountains have always been subjective in terms of their reverence. I wouldn't be caught dead on Rokko-san, while others climb it every weekendweshttp://tozantales.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com