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 lif.
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