Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Paperback
(Book Jungle Feb. 18, 2008)
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Excerpt: ... A PILGRIMAGE TO ENOSHTMA. I. Kamakuba. A long, straggling country village, between low wooded hills, with a canal passing through it. Old Japanese cottages, dingy, neutral-tinted, with roofs of thatch, very steeply sloping, above their wooden walls and paper shoji. Green patches on all the roof-slopes, some sort of grass; and on the very summits, on the ridges, luxurious growths of yaneshobu,1 the roof-plant, bearing pretty purple flowers. In the lukewarm air a mingling of Japanese odors, smells of sake", smells of seaweed soup, smells of daikon, the strong native radish; and dominating all, a sweet, thick, heavy scent of incense, -- incense from the shrines of gods. Akira has hired two jinrikisha for our pilgrimage; a speckless azure sky arches the world; and the land lies glorified in a joy of sunshine. A
- ISBN
- 160597093X / 9781605970936
- Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 15.7 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 0.54 in.
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