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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Entire Family. Peripatetic Hearn was completely bowled over by Yokohama -"A world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale . . . where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed." His shortness no longer embarrassed him: Japan was a "realization . . . of the old [folklore] dream of a World of Elves." He loved Japanese ideographs, Japanese "delicacy," the "atmospheric limpidity" of the Japanese climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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