Another Kyoto

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This is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit of Alex Kerr’s half-century of living in Japan and of lore gleaned from people he’s met along the way: artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Japanese literati, and expat personalities from days past, such as legendary art dealer David Kidd. Kerr turns what we thought we knew about Kyoto inside-out, revealing the inner ideas behind simple things like walls, floors, and sliding doors. After this book, one can never walk through a Zen gate in the same way again.

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Another Kyoto is an insider’s meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan’s most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things – a temple gate, a wall, a sliding door – in a new way.

‘A rich book of intimate proportions … In Kyoto, facts and meaning are often hidden in plain sight. Kerr’s gift is to make us stop and cast our eyes upward to a temple plaque, or to squint into the gloom of an abbot’s chamber’ Japan Times

‘Kerr and Sokol have performed a minor miracle by presenting that which is present in Kyoto as that which we have yet to see. I know that I will never pass a wall, or tread a floor, or sit on tatami the same way again’ Kyoto Journal

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Weight 251 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.9 cm
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Paperback
Pages

336
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

915.2186404512 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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