During her thirty-plus years in Japan, award-winning translator
JULIET CARPENTER, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has
rendered into English a wide array of modern fiction, essays, and
poetry by authors such as Kobo Abe, Fumiko Enchi, Machi Tawara, and
Ryotaro Shiba. Her most recent translations include Shadow Family,
a contemporary mystery by Miyuki Miyabe, and The Sail of My Soul,
modern haiku by Seishi Yamaguchi. A devotee of traditional Japanese
music, Carpenter is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen.
She teaches at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto
and resides in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture.
SEN SOSHITSU XVI was born in 1956, the first son of Sen Soshitsu
XV. He graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto and was ordained
as a buddhist clergyman at the age of twenty-six. In 2002, he
succeeded his father as the grand master of the Urasenke tea
school.
"Juliet Winters Carpenter's text is written with elegance, guiding
through an incredible experience as though the reader were there in
person....I found this book allowed me to see the city with new
eyes and appreciate it even more. Carpenter has successfully
captured, through lyrical and detailed text and spectacular full
page color photos, what there is to experience in Kyoto. This
extraordinary book - which showcases all that makes it such a
fascinating and treasured city - is a must-have for the traveler
eager to journey there." --BookLoons.com
"Captures all the elegance and charm of Japan's most beloved city
with dozens of sumptuous images; includes cultural history as well
as its artistic, culinary, and historical treasures." --ForeWord
Magazine
..".Among the best of the genre and fairly priced." --Library
Journal
"Crammed with photographs, each book provides readers with sound
bites of information written by an eminent foreign resident of
Japan, a foreword by a distinguished Japanese, various short
essays, and a map and chronology chart on the inside cover." --The
Japan Times
"Juliet Winters Carpenter's text is written with elegance, guiding
through an incredible experience as though the reader were there in
person....I found this book allowed me to see the city with new
eyes and appreciate it even more. Carpenter has successfully
captured, through lyrical and detailed text and spectacular full
page color photos, what there is to experience in Kyoto. This
extraordinary book - which showcases all that makes it such a
fascinating and treasured city - is a must-have for the traveler
eager to journey there." -BookLoons.com
"Captures all the elegance and charm of Japan's most beloved city
with dozens of sumptuous images; includes cultural history as well
as its artistic, culinary, and historical treasures." -ForeWord
Magazine
."..Among the best of the genre and fairly priced." -Library
Journal
"Crammed with photographs, each book provides readers with sound
bites of information written by an eminent foreign resident of
Japan, a foreword by a distinguished Japanese, various short
essays, and a map and chronology chart on the inside cover." -The
Japan Times
"Juliet Winters Carpenter's text is written with elegance, guiding
through an incredible experience as though the reader were there in
person....I found this book allowed me to see the city with new
eyes and appreciate it even more. Carpenter has successfully
captured, through lyrical and detailed text and spectacular full
page color photos, what there is to experience in Kyoto. This
extraordinary book - which showcases all that makes it such a
fascinating and treasured city - is a must-have for the traveler
eager to journey there." -BookLoons.com
"Captures all the elegance and charm of Japan's most beloved city
with dozens of sumptuous images; includes cultural history as well
as its artistic, culinary, and historical treasures." -ForeWord
Magazine
.,."Among the best of the genre and fairly priced." -Library
Journal
"Crammed with photographs, each book provides readers with sound
bites of information written by an eminent foreign resident of
Japan, a foreword by a distinguished Japanese, various short
essays, and a map and chronology chart on the inside cover." -The
Japan Times
"Juliet Winters Carpenter's text is written with elegance, guiding
through an incredible experience as though the reader were there in
person....I found this book allowed me to see the city with new
eyes and appreciate it even more. Carpenter has successfully
captured, through lyrical and detailed
text and spectacular full page color photos, what there is to
experience in Kyoto. This extraordinary book - which showcases all
that makes it such a fascinating and treasured city - is a
must-have for the traveler eager to journey there."
-BookLoons.com
"Captures all the elegance and charm of Japan's most beloved city
with dozens of sumptuous images; includes cultural history as well
as its artistic, culinary, and historical treasures." -ForeWord
Magazine
, .."Among the best of the genre and fairly priced." -Library
Journal
"Crammed with photographs, each book provides readers with sound
bites of information written by an eminent foreign resident of
Japan, a foreword by a distinguished Japanese, various short
essays, and a map and chronology chart on the inside cover." -The
Japan Times
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