This book is one of the finest and most authoritative works of its kind on Japanese arts and crafts. It relates in fascinating detail many aspects of Japanese life: Japanese dancing girls, hara-kiri, Mikado’s antiquities, the tea-drinking ceremony, vegetation, the splendor of the shrines and scenery, etc., with over 200 exquisite illustrations enhancing the compelling text. Readers will find themselves immersed as they are taken through a tour of many great centers of traditional Japanese culture – Yokohoma, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka – as seen through the eyes of author Christopher Dresser who traveled at length 19th century Japan. This beautiful work will provide hours of enjoyable reading.