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March 25, 2017 | Single Authors Short Stories

By Michael Wise

travelers looking for the unforeseen came across it in previous Japan. right here used to be a wierd land certainly, the place ladies blackened their tooth, males wore tattoos in lieu of garments, and the total kinfolk bathed jointly “with as a lot freedom as a flock of ducks”. viewers got here in hundreds of thousands and eagerly placed pen to paper, commenting on every thing jap, from curios to coolies, sake to samurai, etiquette to earthquakes. They left behind—in letters, diaries and memoirs—personal impressions of previous Japan, occasionally as revealing of the writers themselves because the kingdom they came over. This e-book good points seventy four of those traveller’s tales—many of them humorous, others critical, yet all a excitement to read.

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