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Photographer's Dedication

To Lil and Maggie

Photographer's Acknowledgements

Throughout my 30-year love affair with Japan, from my first "roots" trip in 1971 to my most recent assignment this year covering Tokyo Bay, there have been many people who have helped me along the way. Special thanks go to Nobuo Yabashi and the Yabashi family, my first employer in Japan; to Pacific Press Service president Robert Kirschenbaum, my close friend and advisor, as well as the entire PPS staff; to Kunio Kadowaki, my most frequent guide and assistant in Japan; to Shiro Nakane, who introduced me to the worlds of gardens and geisha; to National Geographic magazine and National Geographic Traveler magazine, on whose assignments many of these pictures were taken (with acknowledgements to National Geographic magazine for the photographs on p. 58 and p. 91); to Yoko Yoshioka, editor of JAFmate, who also sent me on many a Japan shoot; to Osama Iijima of Dai Nippon CDC and Nikon Cameras for their assignments in Tohoku; to Stan Braverman, former art director of Signature magazine, who gave me my first job as a professional photographer in Japan; and finally, thanks to my publisher, Eric Oey and his wife Christina, for their enthusiastic support.

A hishaku, bamboo ladle, sits on an ablution basin inset in a stone in the Ryoanji rock garden in Kyoto. Ritual cleanliness is a key characteristic of Japanese culture.

Three geisha in exquisite kimono dance at a party in Kyoto's Gion entertainment district.