"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. Shimoda Port

"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. The author

"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. The author

"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. Shimoda road from Yugashima to Amagi

"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. The road around Rendaiji spa near Shimoda

"The Izu Dancer" written by Yasunari Kawabata. Yugano spa beside Kawazu River

Yasunari Kawabata

"A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man" written by Sei Ito. Otaru Port

"The Sound of Waves" written by Yukio Mishima. The view of port from an elementary school hill at the back

JOURNEY TO CHINA 1: THE DISEMBARKATION. Each traveller who lands at a port in China is immediately conducted, like a wrong-doer, between two rows of inquisitive people to the passport office: hardly has he touched the soil of the Celestial Empire, than he becomes the prey of luggage-porters, hotel-boys, interpreters, messengers and other highwaymen authorised by the Chinese police