thanx nice
& i can also tell you now that a careful search by our
local resident informant henry hirose has uncovered no
interest whatsoever in any of these 44 triprefectural
points per se
& tho there is reason to believe the dry ones are
marked
we have in fact no evidence that anyone has ever even
tried to visit a single one of them
whether by climbing one of the mentioned 17 mountains
with this purpose in mind or by looking for some
presumably easier one
so you are once again on the loose in a virgin bp
country
what fun
--- Hugh Wallis <
hugh@...> wrote:
> Searching the archives for info on Japanese
> tripoints in preparation for my
> upcoming visit to Japan in November and possible
> attempts on some of these I
> found this message:
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/17423
>
> Which led me to
>
> http://www.glin.jp/nam/mikuni.html
>
> Despite the best efforts of babelfish I was not able
> to completely
> understand this page completely so I asked one of my
> Japanese friends for
> help. I thought his answer might be of interest to
> the group
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Masatomo Goto
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:27 AM
> To: 'Hugh Wallis'
> Subject: RE: Japanese help
>
>
> Hugh-san,
>
> Yes,
>
> "Mikuni"'s "mi" means three, "kuni" means country.
> in Japanese,
>
> »° ... three
> ¹ñ ... country
>
>
> So as you understands, "Mikuni" means "three
> countries".
>
> This list of city/town with "mikuni" in name has
> created that
> there were actual places which three
> "Han/prefecture(now)"
> meet in one place in "Edo" era.
>
> The second column explains the city/town is still
> the place
> which three prefectures meet in one place.
>
> ¡ý ... This mark's city/town is the place which
> three prefectures meets.
> ¡û ... This mark's city/town is the place which TWO
> prefectures meets
> ¡ü, ¡ß ... these cities are not the places which
> prefectures meets. i.e. in
> the prefecture.
>
>
> "Edo" era is the last era which Shogun(Head of
> Samurai) was the
> leader of the country. From after "Edo"era, that is
> "Meiji", this
> country changed then emperor was the leader
> of the country. Currently as you know, emperor is
> just a symbol
> and have no power.
>
> -Masatomo Goto
>
>
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