How Japan, the most polite country in the world, lost patience with tourists
It is perhaps one of Japan’s most iconic scenes: the triangular shape of Mount Fuji rising into the blue sky, its snow-capped peak accurately reflected in the still waters of a nearby lake. This image is captured with measured simplicity in a 19th-century woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, the artist responsible for the iconic ’36 … Read more