Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan

The book is Noto an unexplored corner of Japan. From you my dear Basil the confidant of my hopes toward Noto I know I may look for sympathy now that my advances have met with such happy issue however incomplete be my account. And so I ask you to be my best man in the matter before the world. It is best too for a journey into the interior to take with you your own bedding sheets that is and blankets. The only consolation lay in the memory of what travel over the Musashi plain used to be before trains hurried one or otherwise into the heart of the land. We were now come more than half-way from sea to sea, and we were still in the thick of Europeanization.