9780679738343-0679738347-The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

ISBN-13: 9780679738343
ISBN-10: 0679738347
Edition: First Edition
Author: Pico Iyer
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Vintage Departures
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679738343
ISBN-10: 0679738347
Edition: First Edition
Author: Pico Iyer
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Vintage Departures
Format: Paperback 352 pages

Summary

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (ISBN-13: 9780679738343 and ISBN-10: 0679738347), written by authors Pico Iyer, was published by Vintage Departures in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Japan (Asian History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Japan books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 cities 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.

Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new.

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