Published by STONE BRIDGE PRESS

P.O. Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707

Copyright © 1987, 1991, 1992 by Donald Richie

First published by The Japan Times, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

First Stone Bridge Press edition, 1992

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Printed in the United States of America

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form

without written permission from the publisher.

Cover design by David Bullen.

Library of Congress-in-Publication Data

Richie, Donald.

A lateral view : essays on culture and style

in contemporary Japan / Donald Richie.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-9628137-4-0

1. Japan-Civilization-1945— I. Title

DS822.5.R53 1992

952.04—dc20 91-47645

CIP