Word: fujiyama
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...ceremony the funeral itself was over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer...
...first setting loose the water that had lain cradled in the crater since time immemorial, the third causing an appalling landslide as the crater walls were hurled down the mountain. It was Japan's first long dormant volcano to erupt since Mount Sakurajima in 1914. The semi-sacred Fujiyama has done nothing violent since...
Death, destruction, desolation in the shadow of Fujiyama...
...taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that can be done with costumes, lavish scenic effects and a well trained chorus is done, except the Last Judgment. Presumably that is reserved for the Passing Show...