"The mountains are fountains of men as well as of
rivers, of glaciers, and of fertile soil. Thre great
poets, philosophers, prophets, and able men whose
thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have
come down from the mountains"
John Muir
Hakone, Plate 11 from the Series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido", c. 1830-31
Utagawa Hiroshige
Private Collection
