I was away, outside of Japan, for several weeks. It’s very nice to be back. Especially to nice to come into my office (17th floor for the Shinjuku Square Tower building), look out the window, and see the snow-capped peak of Mt. Fuji towering over the western horizon.

It’s a rare day that you can see Mt. Fuji well (or at all, actually) from anywhere in Tokyo. Most days, if you look in the direction where Mt. Fuji should be, you’ll see nothing but haze.

When you can see it, as you can relatively well today, it’s inspiring — the massive scale of it, that shape familiar from so many paintings and woodblock prints and photographs, the snow covering the top just like in the paintings. But real.

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1. Mount Fuji from Tokyo
2. Mount Fuji in Tokyo
3. Fuji: 5 Dec 2004
4. “New Photographs” in Nishi-Shinjuku
5. Fuji Rock