Through Japan with Brush & Ink. Chiura Obata

a perfect view of Fuji." For our own part, the best we can say is that we have been trying. Year after year, rain or shine (and more usually the former), we have risen at dawn, hastily thrown on some clothes and rushed down to ask the desk clerk to telephone immediately the Hakone Hotel on the shores of Ashinoko in order to find out whether the weather conditions are to be propitious. "Miete kimashita!" comes the reply: "We can see it now!" We hire a taxi and head toward this beautiful vantage point at Owakidani, Hakone!