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 -- Part 2 The Dynamics of a Cosmic Mountain -- 4 The Mountain Becomes the World -- Kakugyo: Rebirth from Fuji -- Minuki: Fuji as a Mountain Mandala -- 5 Touchstone of Ethical Life -- Jikigyo Miroku: From Oil Merchant to Religious Reformer -- Fasting to Death on Fuji and Transformation of Society -- 6 Cosmic Model and World Renewal -- Fujido: Fuji as a Cosmic Mountain -- Furikawari: The "Way of Fuji" as the Revolution of Society -- 7 Pilgrimage Confraternities: People Come to the Mountain -- The "Eight Hundred and Eight" Fujiko -- Fujiko: Pilgrimage to the Mountain -- 8 Miniature Fuji: The Mountain Comes to the People -- Fujiko: Enshrining the Mountain -- Fujizuka: Creating Miniature Fuji -- Part 3 Fuji as Visual Ideal and Political Idea -- 9 Woodblock Prints and Popular Arts -- Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japan -- Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Hiroshige and Hokusai -- Fuji as Decoration and Souvenir -- 10 Western "Discovery" of Woodblock Prints -- Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japonisme -- "Japonaiserie Forever" -- Japanese "Rediscovery" of Woodblock Prints -- 11 The Enduring Image of Fuji in Modern Times -- Giving Form to Japan's Identity: Fuji and the Ideology of Nationalism.

Framing Japan's Identity: Money and Postage Stamps -- Part 4 Fuji Devotion in Contemporary Japan -- 12 A Contemporary Fujiko -- The Decline of Fujiko in Modern Times -- Miyamotoko: Edo Customs in Tokyo -- 13 New Religions and Fuji -- Maruyamakyo: The Crater of Fuji as a Mecca -- Gedatsukai: Old Traditions in a New Religion -- 14 Surveying Contemporary Fuji Belief and Practice -- Statistics and Personal Statements on Fuji Spirituality -- Three Views of Fuji -- Part 5 Fuji the Flexible Symbol -- 15 War and Peace -- The Mobilization of Fuji -- Fuji as the Emblem of Peace -- 16 The Future of an Icon -- Stereotype and Commercial Logo, Erotica and Exotica -- Secular Image and Patriotic Mantra -- Epilogue: Descent from the Mountain -- Appendix: Sino-Japanese Characters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Colour Plate.