The Silent Traveller in Japan

The book contains 16 full page watercolor illustrations and pen and ink drawings in the text by Chiang Yee. A look at Japan based on four visits by Mr. Yee. Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Chiang's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveler's scrutiny--Tokyo's Cinza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mr. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimo, red-crested cranes--and much more.

Good clean copy although missing its dust jacket.