In Far Japan: Glympses

First published in 2006.  These unique sketches of Japan and Japanese life were written by Frank Hughes. foreign correspondent of the London Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. Shrines, mountains, traditional drums, misty rains and the shrill wailing of Shinto music come to life in Hedges' brief, lyrical descriptions and lovers of Japan are sure to be overwhelmed by memory.

Frank H. Hedges

Chapter 1 See Revealed!; Chapter 2 A Thousand Steps of Stone; Chapter 3 Drums of the Mountains; Chapter 4 When Rains Descend; Chapter 5 Color; Chapter 6 The Bridge; Chapter 7 The Foreigner Arrives; Chapter 8 Young Japan; Chapter 9 The Spring Equinox; Chapter 10 Nyubai, or the Rainy Season; Chapter 11 Sunshine and Summer; Chapter 12 Flower of the Buddha; Chapter 13 "The Pines Are in Their Glory"; Chapter 14 The Mountain Top; Chapter 15 One in Each Generation; Chapter 16 The Mountain Spat It Forth; Chapter 17 The Politician; Chapter 18 A Gift for a Gift; Chapter 19 The Hakone in Winter; Chapter 20 "Blows the Cherry"; Chapter 21 At Noon; Chapter 22 An Overcrowded Empire; Chapter 23 The Priest Is Dead; Chapter 24 Toshogu; Chapter 25 When the Dead Return; Chapter 26 The Spider; Chapter 27 A Saint at Peace; Chapter 28 Coast and Criff; Chapter 29 The Desire for Friends; Chapter 30 The Modern Mecca; Chapter 31 The Children; Chapter 32 "Merry Kurisumasu!"; Chapter 33 A Japanese Home; Chapter 34 When One Is Host; Chapter 35 Flux; Chapter 36 A Stranger; Chapter 37 Faith; Chapter 38 The Plums Are Blossoming; Chapter 39 Ichi Riki; Chapter 40 The Seventh Night of the Seventh Month; Chapter 41 This Morning; Chapter 42 May Day; Chapter 43 The Immigration Law; Chapter 44 Service Completed; Chapter 45 Japan in Manchuria; Chapter 46 Foreboding; Chapter 47 The Internationale; Chapter 48 Azalea; Chapter 49 Roof-trees; Chapter 50 Snow; Chapter 51 The Heralds of Spring; Chapter 52 A Japanese Cape Cod; Chapter 53 The Kimigayo; Chapter 54 The City; Chapter 55 Throughout the Day; Chapter 56 What We Call Progress; Chapter 57 Gardens; Chapter 58 Ghosts of Kamakura; Chapter 59 The Most Sacred Rite; Chapter 60 The Seal of Japan; Chapter 61 The Emperor; Chapter 62 Along the Coast; Chapter 63 The Ueno Mausolea; Chapter 64 "Like a Mighty Army"; Chapter 65 From the Eighth Century; Chapter 66 The Moon of Asia; Chapter 67 Lost Rapture; Chapter 68 "Wassho! Wassho! Wassho!"; Chapter 69 An Old-Fashioned Garden; Chapter 70 Shinmiri; Chapter 71 The Fragrance of Friendship; Chapter 72 Chamé San; Chapter 73 Gift of Poems; Chapter 74 Non-Completeness; Chapter 75 The Earthquake-Dead; Chapter 76 True Tribute; Chapter 77 Asakusa Park; Chapter 78 Sunset and Moonrise; Chapter 79 The Outcast; Chapter 80 Happiness in the Hakone; Chapter 81 When It Is Cold; Chapter 82 The Snow Comes; Chapter 83 At Matsushima; Chapter 84 The Ginza; Chapter 85 From Peking to Tokyo; Chapter 86 Bearers of Wood; Chapter 87 Far From Echigo; Chapter 88 The Mendicant; Chapter 89 The Inn; Chapter 90 Afoot in Izu; Chapter 91 Looking at Japan; Chapter 92 Victory !; Chapter 93 The Poems of Japan; Chapter 94 The Moon of March; Chapter 95 The World Awakens; Chapter 96 A Happy Land; Chapter 97 A First Principle.; Chapter 98 Pioneers of Empire; Chapter 99 Japan's Gift; Chapter 100 Nihon no Koe; Chapter 101 My Lord of Sendai; Chapter 102 The Western Weavers;