The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

by Pico Iyer | Travel |
ISBN: 0679738347 Global Overview for this book
Registered by florafloraflora on 6/12/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by florafloraflora on Saturday, June 12, 2004
From the publisher: "When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old ciites in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today--not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.

"All this he did. And then he met Sachiko."

I bought this book at a time when I was obsessed with Japan and with Pico Iyer. I found it strangely unsatisfying.

Journal Entry 2 by florafloraflora at Body Shop, The - Church Street in Burlington, Vermont USA on Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Released on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at Body Shop, The - Church Street in Burlington, Vermont USA.

Left tonight in one of the empty windowboxes on the outside front of the store.

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