201106 Japan, Repainting Mt. Fuji (27 images)

Morio Nakajima, and his apprentice of 6 years Mizuki Tanaka, paint a fresh mural of Mount Fuji over the top of an older similar view by painter Hayakawa Toshimitsu, at the 'Moto No Yu' sento (public bath house) in Shinozaki, in eastern Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday 23rd June 2011. Nakajima-san and Kiyoto Maruyama are the two remaining painters of Mt Fuji murals in the Kanto area of Japan. Nakajima-san currently undertakes approximately 70 such mural assignments a year, and they each cost the...
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Morio Nakajima, and his apprentice of 6 years Mizuki Tanaka, paint a fresh mural of Mount Fuji over the top of an older similar view by painter Hayakawa Toshimitsu, at the 'Moto No Yu' sento (public bath house) in Shinozaki, in eastern Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday 23rd June 2011. Nakajima-san and Kiyoto Maruyama are the two remaining painters of Mt Fuji murals in the Kanto area of Japan. Nakajima-san currently undertakes approximately 70 such mural assignments a year, and they each cost the sento owners approximately JPY 100,000. Mizuki Tanaka, a graduate of art history, has been an apprentice to Nakajima-san for 6 years but has not yet progressed to the level where she is allowed to paint the Mt Fuji itself, at present she paints the other background details of the mural but not the mountain itself.
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