How Japan’s Mountain Lovers Created a National Holiday
Roughly three-quarters of Japan is mountainous. Its peaks have supplied water to cities and rice fields, timber to build them and, for centuries, places to worship the gods believed to inhabit the landscape. Mountains appear everywhere from ukiyo-e prints and pilgrimage routes to the skylines of modern cities. Even from central Tokyo, Mount Fuji still […] The post How Japan’s Mountain Lovers…
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