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    Fusang is an atonal romanization of a Chinese name referring to various entities in ancient Chinese literature, chiefly a mythical tree or location far...
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  • government, Leroux adapted it along with another gunka, "Fusōka" (Song of Fusang), into the military march Rikugun bunretsu kōshinkyoku [ja] in 1912. The...
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    suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea. Each day, one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel...
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    Germany-based Daimler Truck. Fuso derives from the ancient Chinese term fusang (扶桑), for a sacred tree said to grow at the spot in the east where the sun...
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  • mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological...
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    the country of Fusang ("The country of the extreme East" beyond the sea, probably eastern Japan), where they introduced Buddhism: "Fusang is located to...
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  • the facts are taken from ca. 1150 Fusō Ryakuki (扶桑略記, "Brief History of Fusang") by Kōen, the teacher of Hōnen. "Mizukagami" refers to the reflective pool...
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  • passage is the description by the monk Hui Shen (慧深) of the country of Fusang, 20,000 li east of China. Note, the Chinese measure of distance (li) used...
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    location called Fusang. Although Chinese mapmakers placed this territory on the Asian coast, others have suggested as early as the 1800s that Fusang might have...
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    1875). "Fusang : or, The discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist priests in the fifth century". London : Trübner – via Internet Archive. Fusang, or, The...
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