Title: Wonderfully descriptive but schizophrenic translation
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and echo California and Hawaii's descriptions. There really is no concrete action in the book--maybe you need to be a Japanphile to appreciate the wonderfully descriptive detail of Meiji era Kyoto/Osaka. One stumbling point: I found the translation to be most inadecuate as there are many grammatical mistakes and even sentences which are incomplete. Perhaps Alfred Birnbaum could redo it?
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