Launch of Tina deBellegarde’s new book, Autumn Embers At Garden Labo, Kyoto, November 17, 2024 Writeup by Rebecca Otowa Our valued Membership Secretary, Tina Tersini deBellegarde, came to Kyoto recently and had a launch of her most recent book (September 2024), Autumn Embers, which is set mostly in Kyoto and is the third in the …Read More
Author: Rebecca Otowa
A talk with Susan Ito and Suzanne Kamata at Ryukoku University, organized by Writers in Kyoto.
Each of Us a Petal (Victorina Press, 2024) by Amanda HugginsReview by Rebecca Otowa A member of Writers in Kyoto, the author has won prizes and honorable mentions in the WiK Writing Competition, and her work has been included in WiK anthologies. (A short bio follows the review.) The present book is a collection of …Read More
Book Review by Rebecca OtowaHidden Japan by Alex Kerr (Tuttle, 2023) The original Hidden Japan was in Japanese, titled Nippon Junrei, and this translation gives us another example of Alex Kerr’s stupendous literary, cultural and linguistic gifts. It comprises a description of journeys in 2017-2019 and is in a way an extension, or re-visitation, of …Read More
THE KIMONO TATTOO by Rebecca Copeland (Brother Mockingbird, 2021) Review by Rebecca Otowa June 2023 Many themes come together in this complex novel about a famous kimono, the design of which is transformed into a tattoo inscribed on a beautiful woman, the daughter of a famous kimono-designing family in Kyoto. The main character of the …Read More
REPORT FOR WIK ON ALEX KERR’S TALK May 10, 2023Sponsored by KUAS (Kyoto University of Advanced Science)by Rebecca Otowa A capacity audience was on hand for a talk by Alex Kerr (in Japanese) entitled “Kankou ha Rikkoku ka?” (Will Tourism Lift Up the Country?) at Kyoto Hotel Granvia on May 10. At least three members …Read More
Kyoto Writing Competition
WiK Anthologies
The Nature of Kyoto (2023)
Eds. Lisa Twaronite Sone & Robert Weis
Foreword by Pico Iyer
Structures of Kyoto (2021)
Eds: Rebecca Otowa & Karen Lee Tawarayama
Foreword by Judith Clancy
Encounters with Kyoto (2019)
Eds: Jann Williams & Ian Josh Yates
Foreword by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Echoes (2017)
Eds: John Dougill, Amy Chavez, & Mark Richardson
Preface by Alex Kerr
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