A novelist wanders from toilets to lacquerware to Nō costumes to make the case that Japanese beauty lives in shadow, and that electric light and Western gadgetry are quietly erasing it.
Books mentioned in In Praise of Shadows (1)
Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki: “Natsume Sōseki, in Pillow of Grass, praises the color of the confection yōkan; and is it not indeed a color to call forth meditation?”