Exhibition Guide
1F
8.Goddess of Mt. Fuji
The deities enshrined in Mt. Fuji, the Mother Mountain, have always been the Goddesses.The deities enshrined in Fujisan, the Mother Mountain, have always been the Goddesses.
The oldest existing statue of Sengen Goddess of Mt. Fuji being integrated with Buddha.
Above the three Goddesses, a figure of a buddha is expressed. It tells that Fujisan’s deities have been worshipped as goddesses, and also that the Mt. Fuji belief was under the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism.