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Tokyo sunset with crescent moon and Mt. Fuji

mount fuji sunset tokyo crescent moon 富士山 夕焼け 三日月

Mt. Fuji (富士山) is on the right of this photo in the distance. The building in the center with the tall smokestack is the Meguro Incinerator. One of these days I’ll have to tell you about the incinerator tour I went on in Japan.

Some Japanese vocabulary for those of you learning Japanese at the moment…

sunset = yuuyake = 夕焼け (literally: evening burn)
crescent moon = mikazuki = 三日月 (literally: three day moon)

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Tokyo and Mt. Fuji sunset

mount fuji sunset metropolitan office building view

That’s the Park Hyatt Tokyo on the far left, famous, in part, because of its prominent role in the movie, Lost in Translation.

Tokyo and Mt. Fuji (from the air)

tokyo japan mount fuji

Aerial shot of Tokyo with Mt. Fuji in the distance

A minute or two before taking this photo of Mt. Fuji I was able to capture today’s pic of part of Tokyo with Mt. Fuji as the background.

Photographing Mt. Fuji from Tokyo

mount fuji sunset tokyo japan

Mt. Fuji sunset from inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Mt. Fuji (perspective distortion from Kofu)

mt. fuji kofu perspective distortion photography

While you can see Mt. Fuji from many places in Kofu (Yamanashi Ken) on a clear day, it doesn’t look this big without using a photography technique called perspective distortion. This “trick” is not difficult and doesn’t require Photoshop or any other editing. Merely have people, or some other object which has a standard size, at a distance from the camera, zoom or use a focal length of 150mm or more, and then have the very distant object behind these objects. Perspective distortion will then make the very distant object (in this case Mt. Fuji) look much larger than what the natural eye sees. For another example of perspective distortion see this prior entry showing Mt. Fuji from central Tokyo.

The meeting of the Fukagawa (深川) and the Sumidagawa (隅田川) – past and present

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjurokkei ukiyo-e Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

While walking to my daughter’s soccer game in a shitamachi area of Tokyo called Fukagawa (deep river) I came across this marker of one of Hokusai’s famous scenes from his series “36 Views of Mt. Fuji.” The title of the ukiyo-e is “Under the 10,000 year bridge over Fukagawa.” The bridge is no longer there so I’m guessing its existence ended up being only a few hundred years at most.

Turning the corner a bit and looking down the Sumidagawa (a much larger and much deeper river than the Fukagawa–it’s the river in the background of the above which the Fukagawa is draining into) yielded the following modern view.

No chance of seeing Mount Fuji from here anymore with most of the buildings being over 10 stories high. Perhaps if you were on top of one of the buildings you may occasionally have a glimpse. The blue bridge in this image is the Kiyosu-bashi (清洲橋). You can still see fishermen (the guy in the bottom of the photo has three fishing poles in the water) though. Some things don’t change.