Tip # 32 In his book Meeting With Japan, anthropologist Fosco Maraini explains the complexity of the Japanese with sensitivity and a profound narrative skill for those who admire fine accounts of distant places and wish to learn more about the East part of Eastern thinking. I found a used copy at BetterWorldBooks.com.
Moraini describes on page 23: stopping at a Kabayaki-ya restaurant his first day back in Japan, “the most famous and venerable Kabayaki-ya in Tokyo” at the time. “Our dinner of eels lasted a long time, we drank more sake, and reached that happy state of vagueness about the exact relations of spacial coordinates that leads to the opening of hearts.”
A desire to read and write the Japanese language has been inspired somewhere along my 9 journeys into the heart of Japan. What I like about Fosco Moraini’s book, seen on the page below is his integration of Kanji characters onto the margin of some pages. They lend a aesthetic note to his stories, a depth I’ve not seen in other books. Please read the following paragraphs for an example.
Mapping Japan in the 1700's from Meeting With Japan
The Shinto god Daikoku and His Miraculous Mallet
