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Meeting with Japan
Ore giapponesi. English
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- Summary
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Interpretive description of modern Japan by an Italian linguist and photographer who spent many years there as teacher and traveler. Includes over 150 photographs, 36 in color.
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- Creator
- Fosco Maraini ; translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Viking Press, 1960, ©1959
- Physical Details
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- 467 pages, [64] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00412836, ocm00412836
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-448) and index.
- Three Tokyos in a century -- Tokyo, world melting-pot -- The eastern seaway -- Wooden pavilions in the sacred wood -- Buddha and beauty at Mount Muro -- Encounters at Nara -- Kyoto, in the month of maples in flame -- Aesthetes and soldiers -- Wisdom in a grain of sand -- Kyoto, golden skies -- Signature of the Tokugawa -- Red skies over Nagoya -- Tokyo farewells