The author of the book, the gaidjin Ivan Ilchev prefers telling about Japan not as an historian (what he actually is), but as a dilettante: according to his words, the dilettante is much closer to the unknowing person, who can easier assume him as his friend.
The specialists, says the author, are too righteous, they understand everything and they are far too serious about the object that interests them.
Ivan Ilchev refers to Japan with curiosity and no prejudice, with both admiration and skepticism, smiling at the country`s oddities. He skillfully mingles the serious with the comic and serves us his impressions and personal interpretation of everything he saw in the land of the rising sun.