Saturday 14th November 2026, 11.30am (day 5,560)
As everyone who knows me properly knows, I am a sucker for maps. If they are maps of mountain areas, all the better. If they are Japanese maps of Mount Fuji, better still. If they are 19th-century Japanese maps, which can, still, be curled up into a three-dimensional scale model of Mount Fuji, including the depiction of ascent routes — well, tell me how this can be surpassed. I’m struggling.
I am quite happy to count this as Fuji-san’s second appearance on the blog, after bagging it from my Tokyo hotel room window on 25/3/2017. I will be back in Japan at some point before I die: that much is, if not certain, certainly the plan.
