Fall, 1968: Japanese Literature

Anais Nin feels Japanese literature has "all the qualities lacking in Western literature. It has poetry, subtlety, psychological depths, aesthetic style, and a preponderance of light in the sense of illumination from within. I like so much its emphasis on inner states, moods, feelings, and the fusion of moods with nature. I liked the sensitivity in the meticulous study of relationships, the care for nuances, the beauty of the physical descriptions, and its clear, uncluttered quality, like that of Japanese prints, stating only the essential and suggesting a forest by the study of a branch."