. The playground of the Far East . i^^:C\Maik\airfi^ THE NORTHERN JAPANESE ALPS. ^^M%^w^r7 larso- Oyash> TOYAMA BA^. n CHAPTER XI THE HUMAN INTEREST As one looks back upon a quarter of a century ofgrowing familiarity with these romantic regions ofAlpine and sub-Alpine Japan, the most strikingfeature imprinted on ones memory is that of theunique combination they offer of an endless varietyof natural beauty of the highest order with a humaninterest rarely, if ever, met with in other Alpinelands to the same degree or of a similar it is there that one has found human nature insome
. The playground of the Far East . i^^:C\Maik\airfi^ THE NORTHERN JAPANESE ALPS. ^^M%^w^r7 larso- Oyash> TOYAMA BA^. n CHAPTER XI THE HUMAN INTEREST As one looks back upon a quarter of a century ofgrowing familiarity with these romantic regions ofAlpine and sub-Alpine Japan, the most strikingfeature imprinted on ones memory is that of theunique combination they offer of an endless varietyof natural beauty of the highest order with a humaninterest rarely, if ever, met with in other Alpinelands to the same degree or of a similar it is there that one has found human nature insome of its most unsophisticated and most unspoiltaspects. All that is artificial and materialistic inour vaunted twentieth - century civilisation has,mercifully, not yet laid a paralysing hand on thosefiner instincts and that inborn simplicity of some ofthe most friendly and intelligent peasantry in the w^ natural kindliness of heart and courteous bear-ing, an almost universal readiness to help and desireto please, as one gradually gained their confidenceand grew to understand the influence of ancientsupers
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