Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
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How it came to be
Fuji, a 3,776-metre stratovolcano, was long worshipped as the home of a deity, partly because of its eruptions. In the early 12th century the ascetic Matsudai Shōnin is said to have founded a temple on the summit.
From the 17th century, Fuji-kō pilgrim societies traced to Hasegawa Kakugyō organised climbs for worship. Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji appeared in the 1830s, and 25 component sites were inscribed in 2013.
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