Note 8 — Chapter VI · THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST

Ib., Vol. II, p. 487. See also pp. 479, 505. Percival’s “Occult Japan” a study of Shinto trances, published in 1894, he did not like at all. It struck him only “as a mood of the man, an ugly supercilious one, verging on the wickedness of a wish to hurt—there was in ‘The Soul of the Far East’ an exquisite approach to playful tenderness—utterly banished from ‘Occult Japan.’” Id., pp. 204, 208. By this time Hearn seems to have come to resent criticism of the Japanese.