Mount Fuji’s name derives from a folk etymology tying it to immortality

Evidence

And that mountain, where the elixir of immortality (in Japanese, fushi) was burned, is said to be named for it — Mount Fuji — and some say that the thin smoke that once rose from its peak was the smoke of the burning elixir, still drifting up toward the Moon, toward the Shining Princess who could not stay. — , A Year of World Stories, 8173

Categorization

• SEED: Could build an essay on how landscapes get named through story — Fuji, and similar eponymous origin-myths.