ABSTRACT
Kigensetsu, or National-foundation-day falls on the eleventh of February, which corresponds to the first day of the first month of the year in which Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan, ascended the Throne 660 years before the Christian era. Japan is situated in a zone of active volcanoes and is therefore dotted with mineral spas, numbering over two hundred, which attract people from all directions at all times of the year. “Earthquakes, thunder, floods, fires and Dad” are proverbially said to be the five terrors in Japan. An earthquake is put at the head of the list possibly because Japan, situated on a zone of active volcanoes, has experienced disastrous tremors of the earth all through her history. According to tradition in Japan, a huge cat-fish lies under the ground and every tremor of the earth is attributed to the movement of the fish.
