japanesiness

Updated: July 29, 2026

Out of the forests we came the rain having ceased into a strange-looking landscape, whose japanesiness is equalled possibly only by Japan itself. There were the queer rounded hills, the gnarled and twisted little pines and dim fir-clad slopes cutting the sky with sharp grey silhouettes. Here we stopped to eat.

Cora Gordon - The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia