A sound picture of the landscape of Japan focusing on the forlorn figure of the scarecrow, using poetry and prose by Japanese and foreign writers and actuality recordings. With Jim Norton as Lafcadio Hearn , Anthony Jackson as Reginald Blyth and readings by Eiji Kusuhara and Megumi Shimanuki. Compiled and translated by Stephen Henry Gill
Producer Piers Plowright (R)