We’re all familiar with Hiroshigi’s Great Wave, undoubtedly the most recognizable piece of Japanese art in the world, part of his "21 Views of Mt. Fuji" collection, in which the activities of the Japanese are documented, always with Mt. Fuji in the background.

I felt like I woke up in a contemporary Hiroshigi print this morning, as I woke, not to rain and grey as I expected from arriving last night (last time I was here, I never saw the sky at all), but to Mt. Fuji emerging gently from the pre-dawn light over the jumbled cityscape of Yokohama. A couple of red and white radio towers made a clean nature-only shot impossible, but somehow that fits in well with Hiroshigi too…

See the full panorama here.