In the 1830s, Katsushika Hokusai’s “36 views of Mount Fuji,” series, which included the famous “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” helped to popularize the image of the mountain abroad.

Hokusai's "Great Wave" displays a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background as part of the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Domain The Kofu ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa gracefully distills the power of the ocean into a two-dimensional image that’s as deceptively simple as it is mesmerizing. But what lies ...

The image of a tranquil Fuji became enshrined in Katsushika Hokusai’s 19th-century woodblock series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which, according to Franz Lidz in Smithsonian, “juxtaposed ...

A small town in Japan that got international attention for its controversial decision to block a popular view of Mount Fuji has quietly reversed its decision.

About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ･･･ ...