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First published by Lonely Planet Publications 1996
Published with a new Preface in Penguin Books 2015

Text copyright © Alex Kerr, 1993
Adapted from
Utsukushiki Nippon no Zanzo
(Shincho-sha, Tokyo, 1993) copyright © Alex Kerr, 1996, 2015
Calligraphies © Alex Kerr, 2015

Cover from University of California, Berkeley.

Calligraphy by Alex Kerr

The moral right of the author has been asserted

ISBN: 978-0-141-97975-5