One of the most personal and readable texts by the famous French essayist. Japan as a system of characters, not just visited but read like a book. The author's intimate encounter with a world that opens up before him page by page. Roland Barthes penetrates the hidden meaning of the Japanese kitchen, the theatre, the railway station, the room or the ordinary package with the insight of a man in love. Both a confession and a poetic meditation on what things and gestures tell us when we are prepared to read them properly.
Czech edition