A Beginner's Guide to Japan
Observations and Provocations
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2019
240 pages
978-1-5266-1154-3 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020
How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?
Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times
How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?
Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-1154-3 (9781526611543)
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Person
Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He has been traveling in and around Tibetan communities and the Himalayas for more than thirty years.
Content
- Cover
- A Note About the Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Several Grains of Salt
- On the Streets
- The Enigmas of Arrival
- Dressing the Part
- Empire of Smiles
- The Perfect Actress
- Making Oneself Up
- Parts and the Whole
- Out of Time
- At the Counter
- No Bed for the Night
- In Your Dreams
- The Advanced Guide to Japan
- The 2.5-Dimensional Character
- Between the Torii Gates
- At Your Disposal
- East Point
- Looking for a "Yes"
- The Apple in the Garden
- In the temple
- The Empty Room
- On the Mat
- Words
- No Words
- What Will You Miss?
- Crowds
- In the Garden
- Freedom from Choice
- Being Responsible
- The Bridge of Hesitation
- Topsy-Turvy
- Behind Closed Doors
- What Lies Within
- The Fairer Sex
- The Family Writ Large
- The Other Side of Sorrow
- Out The Window
- The Faraway Island
- A Walk in the Park
- Learning to Be Foreign
- Just Like Us
- Playing Ball
- On the Horizon
- Spirits from the Past
- Plus Ça Change?
- The End, a New Beginning
- A Letter from a Friend
- A Note on the Type
- eCopyright
