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| Japanese Inn: A Reconstruction of the Past by Oliver Statler, 1961 |
From the dust jacket---"Once again I am driving southwest on the great
Tokaido Road that runs between Tokyo, the present capital of Japan, and
Kyoto, the ancient capital...I am headed for the dream-haunted calm of
the old inn called Minaguchi-ya...Through the years, I have come to
treasure it as the most Japanese place I know, the place most sure to
wrap me in the time-honored courtesy of a country I have grown to love.
Yet at the same instant, it is the Minaguchi-ya, stubbornly holding to
the old ways of Japan, that reminds me of the fact that no matter how
many Americans come and go, Japan will remain Japanese." Includes 50
B&W prints and drawings by well-known Japanese artists of the
past---many of them by the famous Hiroshige, who himself may have been a
visitor to Minaguchi-ya. (Source: amazon.com)
Buy it here.
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