Fuji mi zaka The last Fuji View

I had an exhibition some years ago called Blue Fuji that was made when our view of Fuji was cut in half.  There is a lot of fuss this year in my part of town as it turns out we host the last "Fuji Mi Zaka" in Tokyo with an actual Fuji view.  There are places all over town called, "Fuji Mi...  this and that.  But they are all a lie as there are no longer views in these places to support them.

We are the last one and this year we too will become a lie.  A building is going up to block our view too.  Fuji-San was once a living god in Japan.  In my neighborhood the older folks, some of them, still pause and bow at the top of Fuji-Mi-Zaka.  Perhaps next year the still will.  But there will be no Fuji for them to view.

Fuji-San was a god, but now it seems completely replaced by the more contemporary deity - cash.  Bigger, taller, cheaper, faster.  It is an international god these days.  But somehow I can not see the people of Prague allowing development that would destroy the equivalent of their last Fuji view.  In Ottawa, the Canadian capital city, no construction is allowed to obstruct the view of the Parliament building and the Peace Tower.

Red Fuji Back

Some people in Tokyo take a more modern view and pint out that there are still plenty of nice Fuji views up in the new tall buildings, for people that can afforded them.  Who would expect lowly people walking on the ground to enjoy such a privilege in these capital days?