When John Lafarge visited Japan in 1886, he and Henry Adams didn’t make it to Kyoto until the end of their trip. In An Artist’s Letters From Japan, his account of the trip, Lafarge wrote that he and Henry Adams were now ‘mere sightseers’ – no longer studying and learning, just looking. I’m not sureContinueContinue reading “Kyoto”
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On the road
In the last teaching weeks before Easter I revisited some travel books on post-war Japan – in particular Alan Booth’s Roads To Sata, Lost Japan by Alex Kerr, & The Inland Sea by Donald Richie. It was quite enjoyable to reread some of the books which I read before I got really stuck into Japan as anContinueContinue reading “On the road”
Fireflies 