Monty Don Enough people mentioned them to me that I sat down and watched the two programmes on Japanese gardens by Monty Don. I try not the be the sort of scholar who sucks his teeth at all the inaccuracies and misrepresentations in popular media, so let’s just say that it was a mixed bag:ContinueContinue reading “Diary: March”
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A Road Trip, of sorts
Donald Richie’s The Inland Sea is widely regarded as one of the classics of post-war writing on Japan. It’s the account of a trip Richie took, alone, across the various islands of the Seto Naikai, the inland sea of the title. It’s a bold book, idiosyncratic and opinionated (and unashamedly adult), unafraid to cast modern Japan andContinueContinue reading “A Road Trip, of sorts”
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 