By Donald Richie
"Earns its position at the very brief shelf of books on Japan which are of everlasting value."—Times Literary complement.
"Richie is a gorgeous go back and forth author; the publication shines with vibrant witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, retailers, priests and wistful youth, and prepared comparisons of Japanes and Western culture." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A discovered, superbly paced elegy."—London assessment of Books
Sheltered among Japan’s significant islands lies the Inland Sea, a spot modernity glided by. during this vintage trip memoir, Donald Richie embarks on a quest to discover Japan’s undying middle between its mysterious waters and forgotten islands. This variation beneficial properties an creation via Pico Iyer, images from the award-winning PBS documentary, and a brand new afterword. First released in 1971, The Inland Sea is a lucid, soft voyage of discovery and self-revelation.
Donald Richie is the main authority on eastern tradition and cinema with forty+ books in print.
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She would have a happy life. When we rose to go, this pleasant, round-faced, nice girl picked up a box of matches from the table. All coffee shops give away boxes of matches with the name of the shop, its location, telephone number. She held them out to me. I said I already had some of my own. “Take them anyway,” she said. “It • • • • • the largest of the islands of the Inland Sea and stands between Shikoku and Honshu near its eastern end. True, Awajishima, which forms one side of the Bay of Osaka, where the Inland Sea begins, is still larger, but, separated from Honshu by only a thirty-minute ferry ride, it is so near Osaka and Kobe as to seem a part of the mainland.
The grammar books tell us that the words for “you” and “I” come in pairs. Leaving aside the extremely polite forms, now in- to think of Mighty London. It is either one or the other. Rice paddies or the Ginza. “I thought you liked it here,” I shouted. “I do. ” He looked around, hand on the tiller. ” He pointed to a small island to the south, the island we were approaching, and over the noise of the motor told me its story. A long time ago a fisherman lived there, on a headland on the other side.
Yes, you have to trick them. You look down into the water and see one, either asleep in front of his cave, or else just looking around, you know. ” “Oh, no. Octopuses are gentle creatures. They never get angry. You put down the red flag because the octopus loves it. He just loves red. He will reach out to get it, then he’ll hug it, and won’t leave loose because he likes it so much. Even when he feels himself being pulled up, he won’t let go. ” The octopus is occasionally eaten on the spot by the fishermen or, more usually, taken back to land either to be eaten at home or sold to the local dealer.
