Publisher's Synopsis
Includes stories that tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, a period when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realisation, just before the country opened itself to the West and joined the ranks of the industrialised nations. This book, more than anything else, is about a mentality that pervaded Japanese society then and which can serve as a beacon for our own efforts to achieve sustainability now. This is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the
