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Parts are quite melancholy, yet we know that we can't turn back time and live when times were slower and simpler. This started as a collection of articles about one man's experience living in Japan from the 70's to early 90's. If you can get through the mild lamenting, it's an interesting look at Japan, ancient past and near past.

Part expatriate in Japan memoir, part elegy the manner of Lafcadio Hearn in support of traditional Japanese arts, crafts, pasttimes, and attitudes that have been battered by the Japanese modernists themselves. Very readable, credible because the author is fluenct in Japanese and has lived there since the early 1970s. Well worth reading for those into Japan, both traditional and post-modern.