f you see that hotel in the distant views of it and even in the brochures that the hotel put out after it was finished, the shape of the hotel as it mounds up toward the center with the seven story cabaret and banquet hall in the middle. It gives you a sense of the same slope shape, conical shape of the hill Fujiama. And I think what Wright was trying to do in...that was to embody not merely some sense of Japanese style in the style of the hotel but to embody what he said was the Japanese sense of themselves through the image of the sacred Fuji in their architecture.—Neil Levine, Architectural Historian