A mountain is like the human face; every single moment reveals something else while it's the same face all the time. That's how I see a mountain. My name is Kuniyoshi M. I was born on the island Honshu under Mount Fuji 's triangle. Well, about 70 miles away actually, in Tokyo. But there too, the distant mountain is always watching, in the ever-changing light, being so perfectly still that no movement escapes him. Not 36 or 100 but a thousand views of Mount Fuji I must have stored in my head. I like the ones from Suruga Bay best. When I was six years old my grandfather took me on a boat tour there. We sat on the deck and looked for a long time at the mountain that stood like a grand unaffected sail over the restless water. Then my grandfather said: "This shape you see, it will always be with you. Wherever you will go, it will go with you." And he was right, it really does.