"Madame Chrysantheme" is the delightfully tender story of Loti's sojourn in the Land of the Cherry Blossom and his romance with a little Japanese Lady. The author was an officer on board a French warship stationed at Nagasaki, and there he met the petite and winsome heroine. His romance with her found expression in this book in which he evokes all the mystery, all the delicate beauty and all the quaint charm that is Japan in the colorful, exquisitely imaginative style that distinguishes him.