“Fujizuka” （transplants of Mt. Fuji）

06/29/2024 Musashino-city, Tokyo

About Fujizuka

In the late eighteenth century, Fuji-ko confraternities began to build Fujizuka, or Fuji mounds, in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and the surrounding provinces. These Fujizuka were not just miniaturized models but were thought to be “transplants” (utsushi) of Mt.

Quoted from ”Fujizuka: Fuji Mounds Built across Edo”

It is a historic site in Musashino City and was built during the Meiji period.