World Heritage
In June 2013 UNESCO inscribed Mt Fuji as a cultural site under the title Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration. The listing has 25 components scattered across two prefectures.
Mt Fuji was nominated as a natural site in the early 1990s but withdrawn over rubbish and over development. It was successfully relisted as a cultural site in 2013, recognising it as a sacred mountain and the subject of centuries of Japanese art, including the Hokusai woodblocks.
UNESCO recognised Fuji as a religious mountain that inspired Shinto and Buddhist pilgrimage, and as a subject that shaped how the world pictures Japan through ukiyo-e and modern landscape art.
