Authors: Isabella L. Bird
ISBN-13: 9781169301559, ISBN-10: 116930155X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
It is a mistake to arrive at a yadoya after dark. Even if the best rooms are not full it takes fully an hour to get my food and the room ready, and meanwhile I cannot employ my time usefully because of the mosquitoes. There was heavy rain all night, accompanied by the first wind that I have heard since landing; and the fitful creaking of the pines and the drumming from the shrine made me glad to get up at sunrise, or rather at daylight, for there has not been a sunrise since I came, or a sunset either.