Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781404389762
Subjects: Japan; Travel & holiday guides; Asia - Japan; Essays & Travelogues; Travel - General
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.