The second taste of Kaiseki is the soup, misoshiru. Like consomme and potage in Western cooking, Japanese soups can also be divided into clear soup and unclear soup.

They narrowly escaped collision.

[…] it then breezens up, it is too much of a good thing.

Some readers will perhaps regard the resolution of “Hercules” and “Cacus” into allegorical representations of the conflicting agencies of Light and Darkness (p. 31), and the blending into one of Æneas and Latinus, as well as of one or two other mythical personages, as a leaf out of what Sir George Lewis would have called the “Ægyptological method of writing History”;