The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831). Kanagawa-oki nami-ura opens the series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (circa 1831). In it, Hokusai captures the moment a gigantic swell threatens to roll ...

Mount Fuji looms large as Japan’s tallest mountain and one of its most enduring national symbols. Its snowy peak has inspired countless paintings and poems over the centuries, and more recently ...

Back in Japan, Mount Fuji is usually covered in snow for most of the year, until the summer, when the snowless mountain attracts more than 220,000 hikers wishing to trek its iconic slopes.

The mountain with its snowy top and near symmetrical slopes have been the subject of numerous forms of art, including Japanese ukiyoe artist Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.