Description
Book SynopsisAn American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.
Table of Contents
- Prologue: In the Province of the Gods
- . Floating
- One: Genkan
- Two: Fortune
- Three: Barrier Free
- Four: Foreign Affairs
- Five: Mono no Aware
- Six: Physical Facts
- Seven: A Mountain of Skulls and Candlelit Graves
- Eight: An Infected Throat and a Healing Tree
- Nine: Borrowing the Hills
- II. Away
- One: Before
- Two: After
- III. World
- One: Survivals
- Two: A Pair of One-Winged Birds
- Three: History Being Created, or What the Leech Child Says
- Four: Rare and Uncommon Beings
- Five: Bubbling Water
- Six: My Japan
- Seven: Before and After
- Eight: Positive Effects
- Nine: New Stories in an Ancient Land
- Epilogue: Procession
- Acknowledgments
- Suggested Readings
