Letters From Japan: A Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters From Japan: A Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire<br><br>I should like to call this book a record - and an appreciation. It deals mainly with events and persons connected with the different aspects of life in the capital in which naturally most of our time was passed and which is pre-eminently the centre of japan''s vitality to-day. I have described only such places as I visited and more especially the remote hills where we took refuge from the summer heats and whose every turn became as familiar and beloved as the garden of my childhood. [11 health and many ties of duty generally put very long journeys out of the question; but the faithful and patient acquaintance made with those places where my lines lay and what I may describe as the gradual absorption of the life atmosphere surrounding me will I hope make up for the fact that this work is in no way a handbook or a history but merely a humble and faithful effort to transcribe what I have seen and learnt and thus to bring to-day''s Japan a little nearer to the understanding and sympathy of to-day''s England.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.