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\nJANUARYSELECTIONMeetingwithJapanBYFosco   arainiTRANSLATED BYERIC MOSBACHEREditorial BoardJ(IN MASON BROWNBASII.1)AVENPORTCLTTON FA1IAIAVCI1 BERT HICHET()HN P.MAR()UIAN1)1c klc Monh(lub SclcclroH)cp1cscnt the tc1111uuS chorcC  \nof this &ditorial Board  \n64 pages of photographs,16 in full color,plus manyblack-and-white drawings,maps and charts·472 pages  \n[Regular retail price S8.50]SPECIAL PRICE TO MEMBERS S5.50  \n“A book that must not be missed by those whoadmire fine accounts of distant places....Everypage has its own novelty and delight.”  \nREPORT BY John P.Marquand  \nAMONG THE ALMOST INNUMERABLE VOLUMES that have been written to explainthe complexity of Japan and the Japanese,this book by Mr.Fosco Marainistands out head and shoulders high.In sensitivity and profundity,as wellas in narrative skill,Meeting with Japan measures up to the works of the  \nEmpire's most famous Western interpreter,Lafcadio Hearn.At least I know of nobetter book written on Japan for the general discerning reader since Hearn's time.It maynot even be going too far to say that it is as fine a book in its way as Doughty's cele-brated Arabia Deserta,since it produces much the same impressions of the atmosphereand character of a far country.Surely it can be read with pleasure and profit by every-one interested in Japan or in the problems of the East—by those who know the countrywell or by the beginner who has read merely a travel folder.  \nThe picture on the front cover is WOMAN DANCER WITHFAN AND WAND by Kiyonobu I(description on page 13)  \nOf all Oriental nations.Japan is the most contradictory and endowed with thegreatest exotic charm—this in spite of its successful adaptation of Oceidental produc-tion,military and governmental methods.No single individual.Westerner or Japanese,can fully explain all the riddles and complexities of this faseinating country.Sometimesit presents a face like that of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado.But its industrial citiesare copies of Pittsburgh and Detroit.Again.one encounters there an abstruse mysticismresembling India's,and the other-worldly beauties of native art or poetry,and theastonishing vigor and ingenuity of the people.Mr.Maraini has come closer to explain-ing the inexplicable than any other writer with whom I an familiar.  \nFew Europeans,or Japanese either.are better equipped for the task.Mr.Maraini isone of the few scholars or travelers from the West who have overcome the barrier oflanguage.He is able to live and think in both Eastern and Western worlds.He taughtin Japan before the war.He was interned there in 1943 and roughly handled as anenemy alien,and thus he knows the best and the worst.  \nMeeting with Japan is actually an account of his return to Japan in 1953 after someyears'absence,and his meetings with old Japanese friends and acquaintances,and ofhis visits to Tokyo,Nara,Kyoto,Nagoya and other places with which he had beenfamiliar.His human insights,his skill at character drawing,and his understanding ofJapanese life and customs endow every page of this narrative of a return pilgrimagewith extraordinary depth and meaning.The reader is with him walking on Tokyo'sGinza,seated in a Japanese dwelling or restaurant,talking with a geisha girl,discussingdwarf trees with a gardener or ideograms with a scholar,and in each ease Mr.Marainibeautifully conveys the essence of the scene.His word pietures of a modern and changingJapan seem to me more tangible and true to life than those of any other reeent traveleror journalist.He also has the advantage of being a superb picture maker,highly skilledwith the eamera,and the photographs which illuminate his text are in some instances ascloquent and perfect in composition as anything done by Edward Steichen.This is inshort a book that must not be missed by those who admire fine aceounts of distantplaces,or who contemplate a journey to Ja","cbCaicrfVWHzGnUi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicrfVWHzGnUi","pdf",2056252,28,"English","# Book-of-the-Month Club 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