Here’s to the Land of Approximate Time!
Where nerves are a factor unknown,
Where acting as balm are manners calm,
And seeds of sweet patience are sown.
Where every clock runs as it happens to please,
And they never agree on their strikes;
Where even the sun often joins in the fun,
And rises whenever he likes.
—Jingles from Japan.
[72] For particulars on this point, see chapter on “Æsthetic Japan.”