100 Views of Mount Fuji: a selection

Mt. Fuji has a dominant place in the cultural psyche of Japan, both for the people who have lived there, and for those who have come to imagine Japan from a distance. A potent metaphor in classical love poetry, revered since medieval times by mountain-climbing sects of both the Shintô and Buddhist faiths, it is still today a site of pilgrimage; over 100,000 climb its peak every summer.

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