Publisher's Synopsis
A thousand books have been written about Japan; but among these, -setting aside artistic publications and works of a purely special character, -the really precious volumes will be found to number scarcely a score. This fact is due to the immense difficulty of perceiving and comprehending what underlies the surface of Japanese life. No work fully interpreting that life, -no work picturing Japan within and without, historically and socially, psychologically and ethically, -can be written for at least another fifty ye
