Glimpses Of An Unfamiliar Japan
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781419121876
Subjects: Travel writing; Travel - General; Travel; Japan; Asia - Japan; Essays & Travelogues
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.