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Hood [provides] a comprehensive glossary for every single historical figure mentioned in the text. That, accompanied by a 40-page introduction, make the book accessible to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Japanese history and culture. The introduction itself is a stand-alone work, in what must surely be the first comprehensive English-language anthology on modern mountaineering in Japan. . . . Indeed, this introduction gives context to the book, providing a much-needed rooting of the text in the history of modern Japan. The book is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in Japan's mountains, for Hood's translation shows not only how the mountains received their names, but also hints at the destruction of nature then getting underway.-- <i>Kyoto Journal</i>

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While living and working in Japan during the 1990s, Martin Hood visited about a third of the countryAEs One Hundred Mountains. By chance, the first high mountain he climbed was Hakusan, the peak that presides over the birthplace of Fukada Ky?ya , the author of Nihon Hyakumeizan . Now based in Switzerland, he works for an international organization and is a member of the Academic Alpine Club of Zurich.

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