Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan

The first comprehensive English-language study of the evolving religious and aesthetic symbolism of the world's most famous mountain

Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to ...