The New International Encyclopædia/Bandai-san

​BANDAI-SAN, bän′dī-sän′ (Jap., Bandai mountain). A volcano of Japan, situated near the centre of the island of Nippon (Map: Japan, F 5). It consists of a number of peaks, none of which exceed a height of 6000 feet, situated around an elevated plain, on the northern side of Lake Inawashiro. The last eruption of the volcano occurred on July 15, 1888, when a tremendous mass of earth and rock was thrown out by the explosion of one of the craters, Ko-Bandai-san, and rolled down the mountain slopes into the Nagase Valley, devastating an area of over 27 square miles and destroying 461 people.

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