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Another Kyoto
  • Published: 16 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988337
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00
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Another Kyoto

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An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan

Another Kyoto 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.
  • Published: 16 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988337
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the authors

Kathy Arlyn Sokol

Kathy Arlyn Sokol is a non-fiction author, interviewer and Emmy award-winning narrator who has spent over 30 years in Kyoto. Her book RasTa Time on Bob Marley's life & legacy will soon be released in English. Kathy Arlyn Sokol currently lives in Udaipur, Rajasthan working on her next book on India's social and cultural pioneers.
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Praise for Another Kyoto

By exposing the convenient demarcations which define Kyoto, Alex Kerr and Kathy Sokol have deconstructed Kyoto cliche´s and in the process have produced a surprising and refreshing addition to Kyoto lore. ... 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. ... Another Kyoto is a kind of rapturous rupture which explodes the field of cultural, social, and poetic possibilities.

Kyoto Journal