How did Japan, the most polite country in the world, run out of patience with tourists?
It is perhaps one of Japan’s most iconic scenes: the triangular form of Mount Fuji rising into the blue sky, its snow-capped peak delicately reflected in the still waters of a nearby lake. This image is captured with restrained simplicity in a 19th-century woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, the artist responsible for the iconic “36… Read More »