![]() ![]() In the pages of this book are the customs, the superstitions, the charming scenery, the revelations of Japanese character, and all the other elements that Lafcadio Hearn found so bewitching. ![]() The modern reader can still, through these pages, experience that "first charm of Japan, intangible and volatile as a perfume." Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan combines two volumes of a work that first appeared in 1894. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most vividly captured a place that so affected him that he stayed for the rest of his life. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. ![]()
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