Popular culture As a national symbol of the country, the mountain has been depicted in various art media such as paintings, woodblock prints (such as Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and 100 Views of Mount Fuji from the 1830s), poetry, music, theater, film, manga, anime, pottery and even Kawaii subculture. Before its explosive eruption in 1980, Mount St. Helens was once known as "The Fuji of America," for its striking resemblance to Mount Fuji. Mount Taranaki / Mount Egmont in New Zealand is also said to bear a resemblance to Mount Fuji, and for this reason has been used as a stand-in for the mountain in films and television. See also List of mountains and hills of Japan by height 100 Famous Japanese Mountains List of three-thousanders in Japan Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park List of World Heritage sites in Japan List of elevation extremes by country , Araido Island (阿頼度島), Kuril Islands Mount St. Helens, nicknamed "Fuji-san of America" prior to its 1980 eruption Sacred mountains BOAC Flight 911, a British Boeing 707 plane which crashed on the mountain in 1966. References External links Fujisan (Mount Fuji) – Smithsonian Institution: Global Volcanism Program Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Volcanoes of Honshū Active volcanoes Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc Mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture Mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture Natural monuments of Japan Pleistocene stratovolcanoes Pleistocene Asia Sacred mountains Sacred mountains of Japan Special Places of Scenic Beauty Stratovolcanoes of Japan Subduction volcanoes Triple junctions VEI-5 volcanoes Tourist attractions in Shizuoka Prefecture Tourist attractions in Yamanashi Prefecture Extreme points of Japan World Heritage Sites in Japan Volcanoes of Shizuoka Prefecture Volcanoes of Yamanashi Prefecture Articles containing video clips Highest points of countries Internal territorial disputes of Japan