Endlose Kreise. Reisen in Japan

In the early summer of 1977, the writer Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) visited Japan for the first time. For three months he moved around in a country where hardly anyone spoke English, which is foreign and contradictory for a European, but which fascinated him so much with its ancient traditions, its history, its temples and gardens, that he traveled there again and again to track down the "secret of Japan.