J. Philipson-Radersma

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable online sources. The strongest detail available is in the text of De beklimming van den Fuji-yama itself, where she is identified as Mevrouw J. Philipson-Radersma, te Yokohama — indicating she was a woman living in Yokohama when this piece was written.

Her known work, published in 1907 in De Aarde en haar Volken, is a Dutch travel account of an ascent of Mount Fuji. The writing stands out for its vivid sense of place and for the attention it gives not only to the climb itself, but also to Japanese religious practice, pilgrimage, and the meaning Fuji held for the people around her.

Because so little securely documented information was found beyond that publication context, it is safest to remember J. Philipson-Radersma as an early 20th-century Dutch observer of Japan whose surviving work offers a lively window onto travel, landscape, and belief.