In 1886 the American painter John La Farge travelled through Japan with his friend Henry Adams, and his letters home record what an artist saw. He describes the journey from Tokyo to Nikko and the shrines of Iyeyasu and Iyemitsu, Japanese architecture, bric-a-brac and sketching, and reflects on Buddhism, Taoism and the meaning of nirvana.
Luminous travel letters from an early Western interpreter of Japanese art, illustrated with his own drawings. Download the free EPUB.