Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

“My darling city—with an eternal tea and cake, with lanterns of festival—looked up to me through the gray veil of rain. I felt as if Tokio were bidding me farewell.”Miss Morning Glory, an 18-year old Japanese girl, embarks on the journey of a lifetime. Accompanied by her uncle, she boards a ship bound to America, landing in San Francisco and befriending the ambassador’s wife. Whether she’s running a cigar shop in Chinatown or seeing the sights in Chicago, Morning Glory’s thoughts a...

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl is the first English-language novel published in the United States by a Japanese writer.The book describes Morning Glory's preparations, activities and observations as she undertakes her transcontinental American journey with her uncle, a wealthy mining executive.Yonejirō Noguchi ( 1875 – 1947) was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yon...

Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

"This book, "Lafcadio Hearn in Japan," is our Japanese appreciation; we observed him under many different shades, but our appreciation of his art, and also of him as a man-unique in character doubtless, sincere even to a fault,-and as a professor in our Imperial University, is uniform, I think, through every chapter. Where you will find a frequent repetition in the book is the exact place we wish to emphasize; and if the book appears to lack a certain unity, I will say that it was not my i...

Introduction extract:In the Ashikaga age (1335-1573) the best Japanese artists, like Sesshu and his disciples, for instance, true revolutionists in art, not mere rebels, whose Japanese simplicity was strengthened and clarified by Chinese suggestion, were in the truest meaning of the word Buddhist priests, who sat before the inextinguishable lamp of faith, and sought their salvation by the road of silence; their studios were in the Buddhist temple, east of the forests and west of th...

Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!

There are beauties and characteristics of poetry of any country which cannot be plainly seen by those who are born with them; it is often a foreigner's privilege to see them and use them, without a moment's hesitation, to his best advantage as he conceives it. I have seen examples of it in the work of Western artists in adopting our Japanese traits of art, the traits which turned meaningless for us a long time ago, and whose beauties were lost in time's dust; but what a force and peculiari...

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl - Yoné Noguchi - The American Diary of a Japanese Girl is the first English-language novel published in the United States by a Japanese writer. Acquired for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Monthly Magazine by editor Ellery Sedgwick in 1901, it appeared in two excerpted installments in November and December of that year with illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. In 1902, it was published in book form by the New York firm of Frederick A. Stokes. Marketed as the auth...