Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Today in Japan: With a Glance at Yesterday
Time: The early fifties, just before the dawn of Meiji the Era of Enlightenment.
Place. A Japanese village on the plain by a beautiful bay, backed by hills of ravishing beauty; landscapes new to eyes accustomed to orchards, meadows and winter wheat. Instead are fallow rice fields covered with shallow water; low hills sprinkled with pine and edged with bamboo, a grassless and treeless village street, kept dust less by the family bucket; and the white castle of the feudal lord looming up in the distance, a house of gables seven times seven in number, with a lotus covered moat full of mud and slime.
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