Abstract:
This thesis investigates the different aspects that participate in the relationship between identity and visual culture in Japanese society, where the visual elements are certainly the main features of media and social communication. More specifically, I focused attention on the artistic representations of Mt. Fuji such as painting, poster, postcard, ukiyo-e print, photography, from Heian to Meiji period. Throughout sociological and art historical approaches this work sheds light also on how Mt. Fuji has been perceived by Japanese through centuries and which role the visual representations of the sacred mountain have been playing in the social context.
