We bought it in the summer of 2025, along with some fancy mechanical pencils and a small notebook I could carry with me. We were living in Minnesota at the time, taking the bus and driving the car to places around the twin cities, and out into the country. We had an idea for a series of weekend trips that could be turned into a recurring series for this site but it never got off the ground.
The eraser itself is green, with a yellow and white core. I bought the green version because the wrapper had rabbits on it, my favorite animal. the text on the front reads 富士山消しゴム, which translates to Mt. Fuji Eraser. It was released by a company called Plus, and we got ours through JetPens.
When we got an office job we brought the eraser into work, with hopes that it would get far more use there than in a bag we almost never carried. It's been here for about four months, as have we, and so far it looks vaguely like mount Fuji but not really. With the normal use we do here it could take a year or more to actually achieve the effect seen in the promotional materials, but we've been cheating a bit.
Evenness is a problem, the mountain has a tendency to go lopsided so whenever we use it we erase, flip, then erase again. We've also been covering pages of legal pads in scribbles just so we can erase them and chip away at the darn thing faster. Impatience didn't form the original mount Fuji, but it will form this one.
At some point the wrapper with the bunnies on it broke a little and we broke it completely out of boredom. It was pinned to a corkboard for a time but thrown out when our desk was moved. Now the eraser is wrapped in tape with bunnies drawn onto it. It has a gouge in one side from where we ran it over with our chair.