Mount Fuji - the great sacred mountain of Japan

This photograph is the opening image of Ponting's 'Japanese Studies' collotyped by K. Ogawa F.R.P.S. in Tokyo in 1906. It is accompanied by a quote from a Wordsworth poem: "A distant mountain's head, strewn with snow smooth as the sky can shed, shines like another sun."

Photographer: Herbert Ponting

Date: 1906

Country: Japan

Ref.: S0010741