Excerpt from In Lotus-Land JapanThis letterpress, such as it is, i offer in all humility, for I make no pretence to any skill with my pen, and am fully conscious of its many shortcomings. My object, however, will have been more than attained if the book should help to make the manners, customs, and scenery of Japan better known - especially the scenery of some districts which have not been described in detail before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.