THE MOTHER ON JAPAN - The Mother — COMPILED FROM THE WORKS OF THE MOTHER Compiled from the Mother's talks, messages, and letters as well as from her Prayers and Meditations, this work focuses on the Mother's experiences of Japan, where she lived from 1916 until 1920. It begins with a long introduction extracted from Georges Van Vrekhem's book The Mother: The Story of Her Life and includes photographs of the Mother in Japan and her paintings from that period. In these selections the Mother describes her impressions of Japan, Japanese art, and the children of Japan, and comments on the terrible flu that devastated Japan in 1919.

I had everything to learn in Japan. For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder... And everything in this city, in this country from beginning to end, gives you the impression of impermenence, of the unexpected, the exceptional. You always come to things you did not expect; you want to find them again and they are lost - they have made something else which is equally charming. From the artistic point of view, the point of view of beauty. I don't think there is a country as beautiful as that.