Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Floating World. Despite a growing infusion of Japanese culture since the war, in U.S. popular folklore Japan still exists largely as an exotic cliche bounded on one side by cherry blossoms and geishas, and on the other by hara-kiri and kamikaze. Readers who suspect that there is more to Japan than this may find out precisely what by opening either of two handsome, informative, reliable and engagingly written books. Living Japan is a succinct introductory, from Zen Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book...