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|portrayer = [[Patricia Rodriguez]] ([[Season 1|s1]] - [[Season 8|s8]]),<br>[[Jessica Kardos]] ([[Season 9|s9]] - present)
|voice_actor = [[Patricia Rodriguez]] ([[Season 1|s1]] - [[Season 8|s8]]),<br>[[Jessica Kardos]] ([[Season 9|s9]] - present)
|family = [[Mr. Armstrong]] (father)<br>[[Mrs. Armstrong]] (mother)
|family = [[Mr. Armstrong]] (father)<br>[[Mrs. Armstrong]] (mother)
|cartoon first appeared = "[[Arthur's Eyes (episode)|Arthur's Eyes]]"
|cartoon_debut = "[[Arthur's Eyes (episode)|Arthur's Eyes]]"
|book first appeared = [[Arthur's Valentine]]
|book_debut = [[Arthur's Valentine]]
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|eye = Blue,<ref>"[[Buster's Growing Grudge]]"</ref><br>Hazel,<ref>''[[Arthur and the Lost Diary]]'' - see cover</ref><br>Green<ref>''[[Arthur and the Popularity Test]]'' - see cover</ref>
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==Physical appearance==
==Physical appearance==
[[File:Sue Ellen s1.png|thumb|Sue Ellen's appearance in the first 5 seasons]]
Sue Ellen is an anthropomorphic cat who is depicted with a tan complexion, curly orange hair worn in pigtails, and wears a teal shirt-dress with a cream-colored vest over it and red-and-white sneakers. In the early ''Arthur'' books, she wears her hair down; she was given her pigtails starting with the book ''[[Arthur's TV Trouble]]''. In some of the later books, her hair color had changed from blonde to yellow-orange. She wears a two-piece green swimsuit with a purple trim when swimming. For her sleepwear, she is often seen wearing cream pajamas.
Sue Ellen is an anthropomorphic cat who is depicted with a tan complexion, curly orange hair worn in pigtails, and wears a teal shirt-dress with a cream-colored vest over it and red-and-white sneakers. In the early ''Arthur'' books, her hair was worn loose; she was given her pigtails starting with the book ''[[Arthur's TV Trouble]]''. In some of the later books, her hair color had changed from blonde to yellow-orange. Her swimsuit is a two-piece green bikini with a purple trim. For her sleepwear, she is often seen wearing orange pajamas


==Personality==
==Personality==
Sue Ellen is assertive, proactive, brave,<ref>[[Sue Ellen Chickens Out]]</ref> tough,<ref name="Bully for Binky">[[Bully for Binky]]</ref> kind, slightly tomboyish, tolerant, honest, and creative.<ref name="sueellenslittlesister">[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref> She is an amazing storyteller and is open-minded. She is also easy to get along with and can solve problems on her own. She is very mature and artistic for her age and interested in world culture,<ref>[[World Girls]]</ref> which is the reason she makes friends with people older than herself, such as [[Betsy Johnson]].<ref>[[Strangers on a Train]]</ref> Athletic-wise, she is defender for the Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team. She wanted a sibling so she would not be as lonely, but she ends up regretting the need after she goes to [[Reads' House|Arthur's house]] and plays with [[D.W.]] for a few hours.<ref name="sueellenslittlesister"/>
Sue Ellen is assertive, proactive, brave,<ref>[[Sue Ellen Chickens Out]]</ref> tough,<ref name="Bully for Binky">[[Bully for Binky]]</ref> kind, boyish, tolerant, honest, creative, open-mineded, nice, mature, storyteller, charismatic, well-read, lonely, artistic, and vegetarian <ref name="sueellenslittlesister">[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref> She is an amazing storyteller and is open-minded. She is also easy to get along with and can solve problems on her own. She is very mature and artistic for her age and interested in world culture,<ref>[[World Girls]]</ref> which is the reason she makes friends with people older than herself, such as [[Betsy Johnson]].<ref>[[Strangers on a Train]]</ref> Athletic-wise, she is defender for the Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team. She wanted a sibling so she would not be as lonely, but she ends up regretting the need after she goes to [[Reads' House|Arthur's house]] and plays with [[D.W.]] for a few hours.<ref name="sueellenslittlesister" />
==Biography==
==Biography==
===Life Before ''Arthur''===
===Life Before ''Arthur''===
Sue Ellen's father is a diplomat, so she and her family have lived in various places around the world. It is unknown why her family has settled in [[Elwood City]]. She has lived in places like Egypt and Nicaragua, mostly for a couple of months to a year. Her family also spent a year in South Africa. She had never been to a place with snow before moving to Elwood City. She is skilled in martial arts, for example, Tae Kwon Do<ref name="Bully for Binky"/> making her more powerful than the average third grader. In the ''Postcards From Buster'' episode "[[Buster Gets on Board]]", Buster meets Sue Ellen's friends who are skateboarders including Sue Ellen's pen pal Brandon. This gives hint that Sue Ellen at one time lived in Los Angeles, California.
Sue Ellen's father is a diplomat, so she and her family have lived in various places around the world. It is unknown why her family has settled in [[Elwood City]]. She has lived in places like Egypt and Nicaragua, mostly for a couple of months to a year. Her family also spent a year in South Africa. Other places she has lived in include Togo and Kenya. She had never been to a place with snow before moving to Elwood City. She is skilled in martial arts, for example, Tae Kwon Do<ref name="Bully for Binky" /> making her more physically strong than the average third grader. In the ''Postcards From Buster'' episode "[[Buster Gets on Board]]", Buster meets Sue Ellen's friends who are skateboarders including Sue Ellen's pen pal Brandon. This gives hint that Sue Ellen at one time lived in Los Angeles, California.


===Future Life===
===Future Life===
 
If the intro to the episode, "[[The Election]]" does happen in the future, she will be either future [[Muffy Crosswire|President Muffy]]'s running mate or a member of her party. In the imagination of Arthur in "[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]]", Sue Ellen appears next to the Brain and with a child much like him (but with glasses).
=== ☀ ===
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predate
 
== tymology[edit] ==
tymology[edit]
 
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission 
 
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission s kanji, and th
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission ese characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission 
 
If the intro to the episode, "[[The Election]]" does happen in the future, she will be either future [[Muffy Crosswire|President Muffy]] 's running mate or a member of her party. In the imagination of Arthur in "[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]]", Sue Ellen appears next to the Brain and with a child much like him (but with glasses).


===Season 1===
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=== Season 16 ===
=== Season 16 ===
In "[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]", she becomes a vegetarian because she considers animals as friends and loses her taste for consuming them.
In "[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]", she becomes a vegetarian because she considers animals as her 2nd best friends and loses her taste for eating them.


==Family==
==Family==
Sue Ellen lives with her father, a diplomat,<ref name="kafepafp">"[[Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto]]"</ref> and mother, a homemaker.<ref name="kafepafp"/> She is an only child but keeps in touch with her brother-like friend [[Tenzin]] in Tibet<ref name="sueellenslittlesister"/> (she also has a Tibet [[World Girls (doll)|World Girl]] doll.) Other family members aren't mentioned or seen. Like the [[Alan Powers|Brain]], her parents' given names are unknown.
Sue Ellen lives with her father, a diplomat,<ref name="kafepafp">"[[Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto]]"</ref> and mother, a homemaker.<ref name="kafepafp" /> She is an only child but keeps in touch with her brother-like friend [[Tenzin]] in Tibet<ref name="sueellenslittlesister" /> (she also has a Tibet [[World Girls (doll)|World Girl]] doll.) Other family members aren't mentioned or seen. Like the [[Alan Powers|Brain]], her parents' given names are unknown.


==Appearances==
==Appearances==
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**[[Buster's Dino Dilemma (episode)|Buster's Dino Dilemma]] (Cameo) 10302
**[[Buster's Dino Dilemma (episode)|Buster's Dino Dilemma]] (Cameo) 10302
**[[Arthur's Lost Library Book]] 10402
**[[Arthur's Lost Library Book]] 10402
**[[Locked in the Library! (episode)|Locked in the Library!]] 10601
**[[Arthur Accused! (episode)|Arthur Accused!]] (Cameo) 10602
**[[Arthur Goes to Camp (episode)|Arthur Goes to Camp]] 10701
**[[Buster Makes the Grade (episode)|Buster Makes the Grade]] 10702
**[[Francine Frensky, Superstar]] 11002
**[[Francine Frensky, Superstar]] 11002
**[[Arthur's Baby]] (Cameo) 11101
**[[Arthur Writes a Story (episode)|Arthur Writes a Story]] (Cameo) 11201
**[[Buster's New Friend (episode)|Buster's New Friend]] (Cameo) 11302
**[[Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest (episode)|Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest]] 11601
**[[Meek for a Week]] 11701
**[[Meek for a Week]] 11701
**'''[[Sue Ellen Moves In]]''' 12101
**[[Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper]] (Cameo) 11702
**'''[[Bully for Binky]]''' 12301
**[[Arthur's Chicken Pox (episode)|Arthur's Chicken Pox]] 11801
**[[Sick as a Dog]] 11802
**[[D.W. Rides Again (episode)|D.W. Rides Again]] (Cameo) 11901
**[[Arthur Makes the Team (episode)|Arthur Makes the Team]] 11902
**[[Sue Ellen Moves In]] 12101
**[[Team Trouble]] 12202
**[[Bully for Binky]] 12301
**[[Misfortune Teller]] 12302
**[[Arthur's Tooth (episode)|Arthur's Tooth]] 12401
**[[Arthur's Tooth (episode)|Arthur's Tooth]] 12401
**[[Arthur Cleans Up]] 12502
**[[Arthur Cleans Up]] 12502
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**'''[[My Club Rules]]''' 12901
**'''[[My Club Rules]]''' 12901
**[[Stolen Bike]] 12902
**[[Stolen Bike]] 12902
*Season 2
*Season 2
**[[Arthur Meets Mister Rogers]] (Cameo) 20101
**[[Draw!]] 20102
**[[Draw!]] 20102
**'''[[Binky Barnes, Art Expert]]''' 20201
**'''[[Binky Barnes, Art Expert]]''' 20201
**[[Arthur's Lucky Pencil]] (Cameo) 20202
**[[Arthur's Lucky Pencil]] (Cameo) 20202
**[[Buster and the Daredevils]] (Cameo) 20302
**[[Arthur's Underwear (episode)|Arthur's Underwear]] (Cameo) 20501
**[[Arthur's Underwear (episode)|Arthur's Underwear]] (Cameo) 20501
**[[Francine Frensky, Olympic Rider]] (Cameo) 20502
**[[Buster Baxter, Cat Saver (episode)|Buster Baxter, Cat Saver]] (Cameo) 20601
**[[Arthur's TV-Free Week]] (Cameo) 20701
**'''[[Night Fright]]''' 20702
**'''[[Night Fright]]''' 20702
**[[Arthur vs. the Piano]] 20801
**'''[[The Short, Quick Summer]]''' 20902
**'''[[The Short, Quick Summer]]''' 20902
**'''[[D.W. Goes to Washington]]''' (Dream sequence) 21001
**'''[[D.W. Goes to Washington]]''' (Dream sequence) 21001
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**'''[[Arthur's Faraway Friend]]''' 21201
**'''[[Arthur's Faraway Friend]]''' 21201
**[[Arthur and the Square Dance]] (Cameo) 21202
**[[Arthur and the Square Dance]] (Cameo) 21202
**[[Arthur the Unfunny]] 21302
**'''[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]''' 21401
**'''[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]''' 21401
**[[Arthur's Knee]] 21402
**[[Arthur's Knee]] 21402
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**[[Finders Key-pers]] (Cameo) 21902
**[[Finders Key-pers]] (Cameo) 21902
**'''[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]''' 22002
**'''[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]''' 22002
*Season 3
*Season 3
**[[Buster's Back]] 30101
**[[The Ballad of Buster Baxter]] 30102
**[[Arthur Goes Crosswire]] (Cameo) 30301
**'''[[Sue Ellen and the Brainasaurous]]''' 30302
**'''[[Sue Ellen and the Brainasaurous]]''' 30302
**[[Background Blues]] (Cameo) 30401
**[[Background Blues]] (Cameo) 30401
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**[[The Chips are Down]] (Cameo) 30501
**[[The Chips are Down]] (Cameo) 30501
**[[Revenge of the Chip]] (Cameo) 30502
**[[Revenge of the Chip]] (Cameo) 30502
**'''[[Binky Rules (episode)]]''' 30601
**'''[[Binky Rules (episode)|Binky Rules]]''' 30601
**[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]] (Cameo) 30701
**[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]] (Cameo) 30701
**[[Dad's Dessert Dilemma]] (Cameo) 30702
**[[Dad's Dessert Dilemma]] (Cameo) 30702
**'''[[Popular Girls]]''' 30801
**'''[[Popular Girls]]''' 30801
**[[Buster's Growing Grudge]] (Cameo) 30802
**[[Buster's Growing Grudge]] (Cameo) 30802
**[[Arthur's Treasure Hunt]] (Cameo) 30901
**[[The Return of the King]] (Cameo) 30902
**[[The Return of the King]] (Cameo) 30902
**[[Double Tibble Trouble]] (Cameo) 31101
**[[Double Tibble Trouble]] (Cameo) 31101
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**[[Arthur's Dummy Disaster]] (Cameo) 31301
**'''[[The Long, Dull Winter]]''' 31502
**'''[[The Long, Dull Winter]]''' 31502
*Season 4
*Season 4
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**'''[[Arthur's Big Hit]]''' 40102
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**'''[[Binky Barnes, Wingman]]''' 40701
**[[1001 Dads]] (Cameo) 40801
**[[1001 Dads]] (Cameo) 40801
**[[Prunella's Prediction]] (Cameo) 40802
**[[What is that Thing?]] (Cameo) 40901
**[[What is that Thing?]] (Cameo) 40901
**'''[[Buster's Best Behavior]]''' 40902
**'''[[Buster's Best Behavior]]''' 40902
**[[My Music Rules]] 41001
**[[My Music Rules]] 41001
 
**[[That's a Baby Show!]] (Doesn't speak) 41002
*Season 5
*Season 5
**[[Arthur and the Big Riddle]] (Cameo) 50101
**[[Arthur and the Big Riddle]] (Cameo) 50101
**'''[[Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto]]''' 50201
**'''[[Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto]]''' 50201
**[[Nerves of Steal]] (Cameo) 50202
**[[It's a No-Brainer]] (Cameo) 50301
**[[It's a No-Brainer]] (Cameo) 50301
**'''[[The Shore Thing]]''' 50302
**'''[[The Shore Thing]]''' 50302
**[[The World Record]] (Cameo) 50401
**[[The Lousy Week]] (Cameo) 50501
**[[The Lousy Week]] (Cameo) 50501
**[[You Are Arthur]] (Cameo) 50502
**[[You Are Arthur]] (Cameo) 50502
**[[The Election]] (Cameo) 50601
**[[The Election]] (Cameo) 50601
**[[Bitzi's Beau]] (Cameo) 50802
**[[Bitzi's Beau]] (Cameo) 50802
 
**'''[[Muffy Gets Mature]]''' 51002
*Season 6
*Season 6
**'''[[Sue Ellen Gets Her Goose Cooked]]''' 60101
**'''[[Sue Ellen Gets Her Goose Cooked]]''' 60101
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**[[The Boy with His Head in the Clouds]] (Cameo) 60701
**[[The Good Sport (episode)|The Good Sport]] (Cameo) 60901
**[[The Good Sport (episode)|The Good Sport]] (Cameo) 60901
 
**[[Friday the 13th]] (Cameo) 61002
*Season 7
*Season 7
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission 
**[[Francine's Split Decision]] 70201
**[[Francine's Split Decision]] 70201
**'''[[Muffy Goes Metropolitan]]''' 70202
**'''[[Muffy Goes Metropolitan]]''' 70202
**[[Ants in Arthur's Pants]] 70301
**[[Ants in Arthur's Pants]] (Cameo) 70301
**[[Don't Ask Muffy]] 70302
**[[Don't Ask Muffy]] 70302
**[[Elwood City Turns 100!]] 70500
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**[[D.W.'s Time Trouble]] (Cameo) 70701
**[[Buster's Amish Mismatch]] 70702
**[[Buster's Amish Mismatch]] 70702
**[[Prunella Sees the Light]] 70901
**[[The World of Tomorrow]] (Cameo) 70801
**[[Return of the Snowball]] 70902
**[[Prunella Sees the Light]] (Cameo) 70901
**[[Return of the Snowball]] (Cameo) 70902
**'''[[April 9th]]''' 71000
**'''[[April 9th]]''' 71000
*Season 8
*Season 8
**[[Bitzi's Break-up]] (Mentioned) 80102
**[[Arthur's Snow Biz]] (Cameo) 80301
**[[Bugged]] 80302
**[[Bugged]] 80302
**[[Fernkenstein's Monster]] 80401
**[[Fernkenstein's Monster]] (Cameo) 80401
**[[D.W., Dancing Queen]] (Cameo) 80402
**[[D.W., Dancing Queen]] (Cameo) 80402
**[[Vomitrocious]] 80501
**[[Vomitrocious]] 80501
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**[[Desperately Seeking Stanley]] 80702
**[[Muffy's Art Attack]] (Cameo) 80801
**[[Muffy's Art Attack]] (Cameo) 80801
*Season 9
*Season 9
**[[Tipping the Scales]] 90102
**[[Tipping the Scales]] 90102
**[[Arthur Weighs In]] 90301
**[[Arthur Weighs In]] (Cameo) 90301
**[[The Law of the Jungle Gym]] 90302
**[[The Law of the Jungle Gym]] 90302
**[[Buster's Green Thumb]] 90401
**[[Buster's Green Thumb]] (Cameo) 90401
**[[All Worked Up]] 90502
**[[All Worked Up]] (Cameo) 90502
**[[A is for Angry]] 90702
**[[A is for Angry]] 90702
**[[The A Team]] 90801
**[[The A Team]] 90801
**[[Buster the Myth Maker]] 90902
**[[Buster the Myth Maker]] 90902
**[[Binky Goes Nuts]] 91001
**[[Binky Goes Nuts]] (Cameo) 91001
**[[Breezy Listening Blues]] 91002
**[[Breezy Listening Blues]] 91002
*Season 10
*Season 10
**[[Happy Anniversary]] 100100
**[[Happy Anniversary]] (Cameo) 100100
**[[The Squirrels (episode)|The Squirrels]] 100201
**[[The Squirrels (episode)|The Squirrels]] (Cameo) 100201
**[[Desert Island Dish]] 100301
**[[Desert Island Dish]] (Fantasy) 100301
**[[Feeling Flush]] (Cameo) 100401
**[[Feeling Flush]] (Cameo) 100401
**[[D.W., Bossy Boots]] (Cameo and prologue) 100702
**[[D.W., Bossy Boots]] (Cameo) 100702
**[[Do You Speak George?]] 100901
**[[Do You Speak George?]] 100901
**'''[[World Girls]]''' 100902
**'''[[World Girls]]''' 100902
**[[What's Cooking?]] 101001
**[[What's Cooking?]] 101001
**[[Buster's Special Delivery]] (Cameo) 101002
**[[Buster's Special Delivery]] (Cameo) 101002
*Season 11
*Season 11
**[[Germophobia]] 110102
**[[Germophobia]] 110102
**[[Arthur Sells Out]] (Cameo) 110201
**[[Arthur Sells Out]] (Cameo) 110201
**[[Prunella Packs It In]] (Cameo) 110302
**[[Prunella Packs It In]] (Cameo) 110302
**[[Phony Fern]] (cameo) 110401
**[[Phony Fern]] (Cameo) 110401
**[[Brain's Shocking Secret]] (Cameo/picture) 110402
**[[Brain's Shocking Secret]] (Cameo) 110402
**'''[[Strangers on a Train]]''' 110502
**'''[[Strangers on a Train]]''' 110502
**[[The Making of Arthur]] (Cameo) 110601
**[[The Making of Arthur]] (Cameo) 110601
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**[[Francine's Pilfered Paper]] (Cameo) 110801
**[[Francine's Pilfered Paper]] (Cameo) 110801
**[[Spoiled Rotten!]] (Cameo) 110902
**[[Spoiled Rotten!]] (Cameo) 110902
*Season 12
*Season 12
**[[Is That Kosher?]] (Cameo) 120101
**[[Is That Kosher?]] (Cameo) 120101
**[[The Frensky Family Fiasco]] (Cameo) 120202
**[[D.W.'s Stray Netkitten]] (Cameo) 120301
**[[D.W.'s Stray Netkitten]] (Cameo) 120301
**[[Bats in the Belfry]] (Cameo) 120302
**[[Bats in the Belfry]] (Cameo) 120302
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**[[The Chronicles of Buster]] (Cameo) 120501
**[[The Chronicles of Buster]] (Cameo) 120501
**[[On This Spot]] (Cameo) 120502
**[[On This Spot]] (Cameo) 120502
**[[The Cherry Tree]] (Cameo) 120601
**[[I Owe You One]] (Cameo) 120702
**[[I Owe You One]] (Cameo) 120702
**[[Do You Believe in Magic?]] (Cameo) 120902
**[[Do You Believe in Magic?]] (Cameo) 120902
**[[The Perfect Game]] (Cameo) 121001
**[[The Perfect Game]] (Cameo) 121001
*Season 13
*Season 13
**[[The Great MacGrady]] (Cameo) 130100
**[[The Great MacGrady]] (Cameo) 130100
**[[MacFrensky]] (cameo) 130401
**[[The Silent Treatment]] 130201
**'''[[The Secret Guardians]]''' 130702
**[[Kung Fool]] 130202
**[[Fernlets by Fern]] (cameo) 130801
**[[Arthur's Number Nightmare]] (Cameo) 130301
**[[Brain Gets Hooked]] (Cameo) 130302
**[[MacFrensky]] (Cameo) 130401
**[[The Secret Guardians]] 130702
**[[Fernlets by Fern]] (Cameo) 130801
**[[The Pride of Lakewood]] 130902
**[[The Pride of Lakewood]] 130902
*Season 14
*Season 14
**[[The Wheel Deal]] (Cameo) 140101
**[[The Wheel Deal]] (Cameo) 140101
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**[[The Agent of Change]] 140201
**[[The Agent of Change]] 140201
**[[The Play's the Thing]] (Cameo) 140302
**[[The Play's the Thing]] (Cameo) 140302
**'''[[Falafelosophy]]''' 140401
**[[Falafelosophy]] 140401
**[[Tales of Grotesquely Grim Bunny]] (Cameo) 140501
**[[Muffy and the Big Bad Blog]] (Cameo) 140702
**[[Muffy and the Big Bad Blog]] (Cameo) 140702
**[[Arthur Unravels]] (Cameo) 140801
**[[All the Rage]] 140802
**[[All the Rage]] 140802
**[[D.W., Queen of the Comeback]] (Flashback) 140901
**[[The Long Road Home]] (Cameo) 141002
**[[The Long Road Home]] (Cameo) 141002
*Season 15
*Season 15
**[[Fifteen]] (Cameo) 150101
**[[Fifteen]] (Cameo) 150100
**[[I Wanna Hold Your Hand]] (Cameo) 150201
**[[I Wanna Hold Your Hand]] (Cameo) 150201
**[[Buster's Secret Admirer]] (Cameo) 150301
**[[Buster's Secret Admirer]] (Cameo) 150301
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**[[The Butler Did... What?]] (Cameo) 151001
**[[The Trouble with Trophies]] (Cameo) 151002
**[[The Trouble with Trophies]] (Cameo) 151002
*Season 16
*Season 16
**[[Based on a True Story]] (Cameo) 160100
**[[Flippity Francine]] (Cameo) 160201
**[[The Last Tough Customer]] (Cameo) 160601
**[[Buster's Book Battle]] (Cameo) 160801
**'''[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]''' 160902
**'''[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]''' 160902
**'''[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]''' 161001
**'''[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]''' 161001
 
**'''[[The Best Day Ever]]''' 161002
*Season 17
**[[Just the Ticket]] 170402
**[[All Thumbs]] 170501
**[[Waiting for Snow]] (Cameo) 170602
**[[Crime and Consequences]] (Cameo) 170802
**[[Brain Freeze]] (Cameo) 171002
*Season 18
**[[D.W. & Bud's Higher Purpose]] (Cameo) 180102
**[[The Case of the Girl with the Long Face]] (Cameo) 180301
**[[The Tardy Tumbler]] (Cameo) 180402
**[[Messy Dress Mess]] (Cameo) 180702
*Season 19
*Season 19
**'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
**[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]] 190201
**'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
**[[Wish You Were Here]] 190202
**[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
**[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] (Cameo) 190301
**[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
**[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] (Cameo) 190801
**[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
**[[Little Miss Meanie]] (Cameo) 190802
**[[Besties]] 190902
**[[The Last Day]] 191000
 
*Season 20
**[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
**[[Cereal]] 200202
**[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602
 
==Trivia==
*There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
*She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
*She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
*She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
*She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
*Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
*She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
*She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].
 
==Gallery==
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== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
 
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
 
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
 
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central 
**'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
**'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
**[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
**[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
**[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
**[[Besties]] 190902
**[[The Last Day]] 191000
 
*Season 20
**[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
**[[Cereal]] 200202
**[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602
 
==Trivia==
*There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
*She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
*She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
*She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
*She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
*Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
*She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
*She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].
 
==Gallery==
{{Fullgallery
|image2 = Sue1.jpg
|image1 = Sue Ellen Painting.png
|image3 = ST 2.JPG}}
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japa
 
onshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission ountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another c
**'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
**'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
**[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
**[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
**[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
**[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
**[[Besties]] 190902
**[[Besties]] 190902
**[[The Last Day]] 191000
**[[The Last Day]] 191000
*Season 20
*Season 20
**[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
**[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
**[[Cereal]] 200202
**[[Cereal]] 200202
**[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602
**[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602
**[[The Hallway Minotaur]] (Cameo) 200701
**[[Ladonna's Like List]] (Cameo) 200702
*Season 21
**[[Binky's 'A' Game]] (Cameo) 210101
**[[Francine & the Soccer Spy]] (Cameo) 210301
**[[Sue Ellen & the Last Page]] 210302
**[[Muffy Misses Out]] 210401
**[[Arthur Takes a Stand]] 210402
**[[Slink's Special Talent]] (Cameo) 210501
**[[Take a Hike, Molly]] (Cameo) 210502


==Trivia==
* Season 22
*There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
**[[Muffy's House Guests]]
*She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
**[[Binky Can't Always Get What He Wants]]
*She became a vegetarian because she lo
***'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
***'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
***[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
***[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
***[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
***[[Besties]] 190902
***[[The Last Day]] 191000
 
**Season 20
***[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
***[[Cereal]] 200202
***[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602
 
==Trivia==
**There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
**She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
**She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
**She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
**She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
**Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
**She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
**She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].
 
==Gallery==
{{Fullgallery
|image2 = Sue1.jpg
|image1 = Sue Ellen Painting.png
|image3 = ST 2.JPG}}
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japa
***'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
***'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
***[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
'''[[Sue Ellen Adds It Up]]''' 190201
**'''[[Wish You Were Here]]''' 190202
**[[Arthur's Toy Trouble]] 190301
**[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
**[[Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity]] 190901
**[[Besties]] 190902
**[[The Last Day]] 191000
 
*Season 20
**[[Buster's Second Chance]] 200101
**[[Cereal]] 200202
**[[Mutiny on the Pitch]] 200602


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
*There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
*She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
*She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref>A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''. https://www.wgbh.org/programs/2019/12/27/marc-brown-arthur-and-the-real-mr-ratburn-the-rewind</ref>
*She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
*She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref>"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
*She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
*She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref>"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref>"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
*She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
*She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "nice things" about him at the end of "[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]," however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref>"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
*Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
*Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has traveled around the world, the initials fit.
*She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
*She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
*She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].
*She has a pet snail in "[[Sick as a Dog]]."
 
*She went to volunteer at the hospital in "[[Muffy's Classy Classics Club]]."
==Gallery==
*[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] taught her a magic trick in "[[The Short, Quick Summer]]."
{{Fullgallery
|image2 = Sue1.jpg
|image1 = Sue Ellen Painting.png
|image3 = ST 2.JPG}}
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
 
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
 
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
 
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
 
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
 
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
 
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
 
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
 
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
 
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
 
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
 
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
 
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
 
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
 
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
 
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japa
***[[Francine's Cleats of Strength]] 190801
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==Trivia==
**There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "[[The Secret Guardians]]", "[[April 9th]]" and "[[What Scared Sue Ellen?]]".
**She is based on Ruth Ann, [[Marc Brown]]'s childhood girlfriend.<ref name=":0">A Marc Brown interview that is sometimes included with ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas (movie)|Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.</ref>
**She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
**She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
**She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
**Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
**She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
**She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japa
st taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.<ref name=":1">"[[Sue Ellen Vegges Out]]"</ref>
*She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.<ref name=":2">"[[Sue Ellen's Little Sister]]</ref><ref name=":3">"[[So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]"</ref>
*She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "Nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.<ref name=":4">"[[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]]"</ref>
*Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has travelled around the world, the initials fit.
*She did not have a speaking role in any [[Season 18]] episode.
*She has a pet snail in [[Sick as a Dog]].
==Gallery==
{{Fullgallery
|image2 = Sue1.jpg
|image1 = Sue Ellen Painting.png
|image3 = ST 2.JPG}}
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the m
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japa
laims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane,
== tymology[edit] ==
The current ''kanji'' for Mount Fuji, 富 and 士, mean "wealth" or "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission  speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission  "abundant" and "a man with a certain status" respectively. However, the name predates kanji, and these characters are ateji, meaning that they were selected because their pronunciations match the syllables of the name but do not carry a meaning related to the mountain.
The origin of the name ''Fuji'' is unclear, having no recording of it being first called by this name. A text of the 9th century, ''Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', says that the name came from "immortal" (不死 ''fushi, fuji'') and also from the image of abundant (富 ''fu'') soldiers (士 ''shi, ji'')<sup>[9]</sup> ascending the slopes of the mountain.<sup>[10]</sup> An early folk etymology claims that ''Fuji'' came from 不二 (''not'' + ''two''), meaning ''without equal'' or ''nonpareil''. Another claims that it came from 不尽 (''not'' + ''to exhaust''), meaning ''neverending''.
A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning, "a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (穂 ''ho'') of a rice plant". A British missionary Bob Chiggleson (1854–1944) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for "fire" (''fuchi'') of the fire deity (Kamui Fuchi), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971) on the grounds of phonetic development (sound change). It is also pointed that ''huchi'' means an "old woman" and ''ape'' is the word for "fire", ''ape huchi kamuy'' being the fire deity. Research on the distribution of place names that include ''fuji'' as a part also suggest the origin of the word ''fuji'' is in the Yamato language rather than Ainu. A Japanese toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as wisteria (藤 ''fuji'') and rainbow (虹 ''niji, but with an alternative word fuji''), and came from its "long well-shaped slope".<sup>[11][12][13][14]</sup>
=== Variations[edit] ===
In English, the mountain is known as Mount Fuji. Some sources refer to it as "Fuji-san", "Fujiyama" or, redundantly, "Mt. Fujiyama". Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as "Fuji-san". This "san" is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-Japanese reading of the character ''yama'' (山, "mountain") used in Sino-Japanese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, the name is transliterated as ''Huzi''.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include ''Fuji-no-Yama'' (ふじの山, "the Mountain of Fuji"), ''Fuji-no-Takane'' (ふじの高嶺, "the High Peak of Fuji"), ''Fuyō-hō'' (芙蓉峰, "the Lotus Peak"), and ''Fugaku''(富岳/富嶽), created by combining the first character of 富士, ''Fuji'', and 岳, ''mountain''.<sup>[15]</sup>
== In Shinto mythology[edit] ==
In Shinto mythology, Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami'', in ''Kojiki'')(国常立尊<sup>?</sup>, ''Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto'', in ''Nihon Shoki'') is one of the two godsborn from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the earth was chaotic. According to ''Nihongi'' is Konohanasakuya-hime, wife of Ninigi is the goddess of Mount Fuji where Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha is dedicated for her.
== History[edit] ==
Mount Fuji covered by clouds
Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art especially after 1600, when Edo (now Tokyo) became the actual capital and people saw the mountain while traveling on the Tōkaidō road. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.<sup>[16]</sup> One of the modern artists who depicted Fuji in almost all her works was Tamako Kataoka.
It is thought that the first recorded ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era in the late 1860s. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present-day town of Gotemba. The ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo held ''yabusame'' in the area in the early Kamakura period.
Founded by Nikkō Shōnin in 1290 on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture is the Taiseki-ji temple complex, the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, which is visited by thousands of westerners and Asian believers from neighbouring countries each year who go on varying Tozan pilgrimages.
Brooklyn Museum – woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige, 19th century
The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.<sup>[17]:427</sup> Alcock's brief narrative in ''The Capital of the Tycoon'' was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.<sup>[17]:421–7</sup> Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.<sup>[18]</sup> Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in the same year.<sup>[19]</sup>
On March 5, 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near the Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members died in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain. There is a memorial for the crash a short distance down from the Gotemba New fifth station.<sup>[20]</sup>
Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing.<sup>[21][22]</sup> In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.<sup>[23]</sup> A well-known Japanese saying suggests that a wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once in their lifetime, but only a fool would climb it twice.<sup>[24][25]</sup> It remains a popular symbol in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,<sup>[26]</sup> inspiring the Infiniti logo,<sup>[27]</sup>and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.<sup>[28][29]</sup>
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,402 ft), was replaced by a fully automated meteorological system.<sup>[30]</sup>
View of routes to Mt. Fuji
As of 2011, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
== Geography[edit] ==
Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Four small cities surround it: Gotemba to the east, Fujiyoshida to the north, Fujinomiya to the southwest, and Fuji to the south. It is also surrounded by five lakes: Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Sai, Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji.<sup>[31]</sup> They, and nearby Lake Ashi, provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes as far as Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Lake Hamana when the sky is clear. Particularly in the winter it can be seen from the Shinkansen until it reaches Utsunomiya station. It has also been photographed from space during a space shuttle mission 
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Sue Ellen Armstrong
Sue Ellen.png
Age 8[1]
Grade 3rd
Gender Female
Animal Cat[2]

Eye color Blue,[3]
Hazel,[4]
Green[5]
Hair color Dark red (s1 - s5),
Dark orange (s6 - present),
Blonde (some books)
Complexion Peach (s1-s5)
Tan (s6-present)
Favorite color Olive green[1]
Residence Sue Ellen's House, Elwood City
Family Mr. Armstrong (father)
Mrs. Armstrong (mother)

Book debut Arthur's Valentine
Cartoon debut "Arthur's Eyes"
Voiced by Patricia Rodriguez (s1 - s8),
Jessica Kardos (s9 - present)

Sue Ellen Armstrong[6] is a 3rd grader in Mr. Ratburn's class at Lakewood Elementary School.

Physical appearance

Sue Ellen is an anthropomorphic cat who is depicted with a tan complexion, curly orange hair worn in pigtails, and wears a teal shirt-dress with a cream-colored vest over it and red-and-white sneakers. In the early Arthur books, she wears her hair down; she was given her pigtails starting with the book Arthur's TV Trouble. In some of the later books, her hair color had changed from blonde to yellow-orange. She wears a two-piece green swimsuit with a purple trim when swimming. For her sleepwear, she is often seen wearing cream pajamas.

Personality

Sue Ellen is assertive, proactive, brave,[7] tough,[8] kind, boyish, tolerant, honest, creative, open-mineded, nice, mature, storyteller, charismatic, well-read, lonely, artistic, and vegetarian [9] She is an amazing storyteller and is open-minded. She is also easy to get along with and can solve problems on her own. She is very mature and artistic for her age and interested in world culture,[10] which is the reason she makes friends with people older than herself, such as Betsy Johnson.[11] Athletic-wise, she is defender for the Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team. She wanted a sibling so she would not be as lonely, but she ends up regretting the need after she goes to Arthur's house and plays with D.W. for a few hours.[9]

Biography

Life Before Arthur

Sue Ellen's father is a diplomat, so she and her family have lived in various places around the world. It is unknown why her family has settled in Elwood City. She has lived in places like Egypt and Nicaragua, mostly for a couple of months to a year. Her family also spent a year in South Africa. Other places she has lived in include Togo and Kenya. She had never been to a place with snow before moving to Elwood City. She is skilled in martial arts, for example, Tae Kwon Do[8] making her more physically strong than the average third grader. In the Postcards From Buster episode "Buster Gets on Board", Buster meets Sue Ellen's friends who are skateboarders including Sue Ellen's pen pal Brandon. This gives hint that Sue Ellen at one time lived in Los Angeles, California.

Future Life

If the intro to the episode, "The Election" does happen in the future, she will be either future President Muffy's running mate or a member of her party. In the imagination of Arthur in "Arthur Rides the Bandwagon", Sue Ellen appears next to the Brain and with a child much like him (but with glasses).

Season 1

In "Sue Ellen Moves In," Sue Ellen moves to Elwood City. Buster thinks she is an alien because she has many strange objects. He later realizes that she has lived all over the world and they become friends. In "Bully for Binky", Sue Ellen stands up to Binky and is not afraid to stand up to someone much bigger than her. Binky becomes intimidated by her because she knows martial arts. Later, Sue Ellen says that she doesn't want to fight him, but if he ever does, she'll be ready. Binky soon stops his bullying.

Season 2

In "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary", she loses her diary in the library. She asks her friends, but they haven't seen it. They wonder what is inside. Soon, they find her diary, but they ultimately chose to not open it. Sue Ellen recovers her diary and hints that she has a crush on Arthur; this was probably to an allusion to Arthur's crush on Sue Ellen in the Arthur books. In "Sue Ellen's Little Sister", Sue Ellen feels sad that she doesn't have a sibling. She asks her friends to be their siblings and realize that older brothers won't work. She looks for little sisters and ends up with D.W. whom she can't stand. She later realizes the pros of being an only child. Her parents get her a brother-like friend from Tibet to whom she can write letters to.

Season 3

One of Sue Ellen's biggest appearances in this season is in "Sue Ellen and the Brainasaurus". She later appears in "Popular Girls", in which she is the central character with Fern, and "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival".

Season 16

In "Sue Ellen Vegges Out", she becomes a vegetarian because she considers animals as her 2nd best friends and loses her taste for eating them.

Family

Sue Ellen lives with her father, a diplomat,[12] and mother, a homemaker.[12] She is an only child but keeps in touch with her brother-like friend Tenzin in Tibet[9] (she also has a Tibet World Girl doll.) Other family members aren't mentioned or seen. Like the Brain, her parents' given names are unknown.

Appearances

Trivia

  • There are several episodes in the series that group her with Arthur, Buster and Binky such as "The Secret Guardians", "April 9th" and "What Scared Sue Ellen?".
  • She is based on Ruth Ann, Marc Brown's childhood girlfriend.[13]
  • She became a vegetarian because she lost taste of eating animals whom she considers friends.[14]
  • She has a brother-like friend named Tenzin who lives in Tibet.[15][16]
  • She may have a crush on Arthur since she said she wrote some "nice things" about him at the end of "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary," however, she might just be expressing her friendship or admiration for him.[17]
  • Sue Ellen's full initials spell out SEA. Given she has traveled around the world, the initials fit.
  • She did not have a speaking role in any Season 18 episode.
  • She has a pet snail in "Sick as a Dog."
  • She went to volunteer at the hospital in "Muffy's Classy Classics Club."
  • Mr. Ratburn taught her a magic trick in "The Short, Quick Summer."

Gallery

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The full image gallery for Sue Ellen Armstrong may be viewed at Sue Ellen Armstrong/Gallery.

References