Artists Letters From Japan

First Published in 2001. Written by the doyen of American impressionist painters, La Farge, during his travels in Japan with Henry Adams in the latter part of the nineteenth century, writes with amazing sensitivity and observation about the whole of Japanese society at that time.

Professor John La Farge 1835-1910 was a painter, writer and traveller.

AN ARTIST'S LETTERS FROM JAPAN, FROM TOKIO TO NIKKO, THE SHRINES OF IYEYAS? AND IYEMITS? IN THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF NIKKO, IYEMITS?, TAO : THE WAY, JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE, BRIC-A-BRAC , SKETCHING, NIRVANA, SKETCHING.-THE FLUTES OF IYÉYAS?, SKETCHING.-THE PAGODA IN RAIN, FROM NIKKO TO KAMAKURA, NIKKO TO YOKOHAMA, YOKOHAMA -KAMAKURA, KIOTO, A JAPANESE DAY.-FROM KIOTO TO GIFU, FROM KAMBAR, MIYANOSHITA -A LETTER FROM A KAGO