Another Kyoto

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 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

Alex Kerr og Kathy Arlyn Sokol

Penguin Books Ltd

5. juli 2018

5. juli 2018

PAPERBACK

336

9780141988337

130 mm

197 mm

20 mm