Most of the essays at Views are now located at Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/views_202403
The text may be viewed or downloaded for free. Here is the Table of Contents:
Introduction
Asia Everywhere
1. The Lure of the Orient
2. Missionaries in Reverse
3. Japan’s Cultivation of its Own Exotic Appeal
4. The Great Game
Rice
1. Introduction
2. Japan’s Self-image
3. Japanese Emperors as Rice-Shamans
4. Ancestor-worship Around the World
Engakuji and the Winds of War
1. Engakuji
2. Nichiren
3. The Mongol Invasions
4. A Shakuhachi Concert
Peshawar
1. A Passage to Pakistan
2. ‘Why Are You Here?’
3. The Orient-Occident Frontier
4. No Going Back
The Art of War
1. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro
2. Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and the Romance of War
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Jacques Delacroix’ I Used to Be French
1. An Unlikely Refugee
2. Talking Back
3. A Deep Dive
Saint Francis and Piero della Francesca
1. Saint Francis at La Verna
2. Piero della Francesca: Painting, Perspective, and Accounting
Another Venice ?
1. Marriage of Sea and Land
2. San Marco as a Robber’s Den
3. A Stage-set for Make-believe
4. Other Cities With Canals
Renewal
In Praise of Shadows ・ 陰翳礼賛
A Case of Mistaken Identity

