Asama-yama is about 8,000 feet high, and is an active volcano.
"Japan"
David Murray
The most famous of the active volcanoes is Asama-yama in Shinano.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
Nature worship, the worship of the sun, that gave its name to the ancient kingdom, the natural phenomena of their volcanic mountains Fuji-no-yama or Asama-yama, inspired feelings of reverence in the ancient Japanese far more potent than any idea connected with their "ancestral spirits."
"Lafcadio Hearn"
Nina H. Kennard