Fuji

 

[Fuji]

 

“Eight Views of Mount Fuji”

 

the iconic mountain still

without snow

the longest period since

 

remained snowless on Tuesday

latest date

slopes have been bare since records

 

the snowcap begins forming

October

on average detected

 

but because of warm weather

this year no

snowfall had yet been observed

 

Meteorological

Office said

climate change might have impact

 

Japan’s summer joint hottest

on record

visitors trudge up its slopes

 

climb through the night see sunrise

tourism

the symmetrical mountain

 

immortalised in artworks

it last e-

rupted 300 years ago

 

Found poem: ‘Mount Fuji snowless for longest time on record after sweltering Japan summer’ (Agence France-Presse), in The Guardian online, Wednesday 30 October 2024.

 

Image: Company still from Melbourne Opera’s production this year of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, Act 3, outside the club, with Hokusai wave climbing up Hosier Lane wall.