The silent traveller in Japan.
By: Written and illustrated by Chiang Yee.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Japan -- Description and travel.
Description: Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Chiang's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveler's scrutiny--Tokyo's Cinza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mr. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimos, red-crested cranes--and much more.