Vanishing Japan: Traditions, Crafts & Culture

This classic text of Japanese culture contains a wealth of information about traditional Japan and Japanese customs.

Pawnshops and handmade paper, shoe shiners and Shinto jugglers, money rakes and mosquito netting—all these were once a familiar part of daily life in Japan. Many elements of that daily life, like the Obon dances and oreiboko apprenticeships, have no counterpart in any other culture: they are purely unique to Japan.

But with the tremendous changes of the modern age, most traces ...