Ebook: 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.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Preface: Invitation to Fuji; A Note on Japanese Names and Terms and on Citations; Part 1 The Power and Beauty of a Mountain; 1 The Power of the Volcano: Fire and Water; The Story of a Mountain: Natural and Cultural; From Volcano to Sacred Mountain; 2 The Beauty of the Ideal Mountain: Early Poetry and Painting; Fuji in Early Writing; Fuji in Classical Painting; 3 Asceticism: Opening the Mountain; Fuji Pioneers: En no Gyoja and Matsudai Shonin; Shugendo: Fuji as an Ascetic Otherworld.