Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan (First Series)
Publisher: IndyPublish
Published: April 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781428059528
Subjects: Asia - Japan; Essays & Travelogues; Travel / Asia / Japan; Travel : Essays & Travelogues; Travel - Foreign
First sentence: It is with the delicious surprise of the first journey through Japanese streets-unable to make one's kuruma-runner understand anything but gestures, frantic gestures to roll on anywhere, everywhere, since all is unspeakably pleasurable and new-that one first receives the real sensation of being in the Orient, in this Far East so much read of, so long dreamed of, yet, as the eyes bear witness, heretofore all unknown.