Mount Fuji

Japan's highest and most symmetric volcano, the snow-capped cone of prints, poems and pilgrimage.

Specifications & Metrics

elevation

3,776 m

Core Principles & Analysis

• Its last eruption was in 1707, the Hōei eruption, which dusted Edo — today's Tokyo — with ash.
• Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji made it the most reproduced mountain in art.
• Women were forbidden to climb it until the Meiji era; the first officially recorded female ascent was 1872.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Mount Fuji