Writers in Kyoto

Category: Reviews

Book Review: THE WAY OF THE FEARLESS WRITER: Ancient Eastern Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review that focuses on the Buddhist principles that appear in the book and the reviewer's own application of the concepts in the book.

Book Announcement: This Very Moment—A new book of Miksang contemplative photographs

  • By John Einarsen
The author describes his book which is the first photography book to introduce the Miksang approach in Japan.

Book Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of Ruth Ozeki's fourth novel which takes place largely in a library and where one can feel the author's presence.

Kyoto Journal 102

  • By WiK
A description of the content of the latest issue of Kyoto Journal which focuses on formative experiences.

Book Review: KANAZAWA —A novel by David Joiner

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of a book featuring two couples.

A Passion for Japan

  • By WiK
A blurb and list of contents of a book featuring long-term residents of Japan.

Book Review: Wintermoon, by Robert Maclean

  • By Mark Richardson
An analytical review of a book of 119 haiku.

Spirit of Shizen

  • By Robert Weis
A review of an exhibition and the catalog of the exhibition.

Book Review: The Widow, The Priest, and the Octopus Hunter, by Amy Chavez

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of a book that tells the story of an aging island community.

David Joiner (‘Kanazawa’)

  • By WiK
A Q&A with the author of Kanazawa.

Book Review: Structures of Kyoto (WiK Anthology 4)

  • By Jean Pasley
A review from an Irish writer.

Book Review: Of Arcs and Circles — Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art, by Marc Peter Keane

  • By Rebecca Otowa
Review of a book by an American landscape architect who lived and worked in Kyoto for many years.

The Poetry of Pain and Its Meaning in the Age of COVID-19 

  • By Michael Freiling and Shelley Baker-Gard 
Review of a manuscript of poems written during August 1942 in America by Japanese-Americans being sent to camps.

Book Review: The Short Story Collective: 13 Tales from Japan, by Andrew Innes

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of stories that the reviewer calls both challenging and entertaining.

Kyoto Journal 100 Views of Kyoto

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of the 100th issue of Kyoto Journal with a focus on contributing WIK authors.

Kyoto Journal 100

  • By Ken Rodgers
Announcement of a very special print issue of Kyoto Journal.

Book Review: Black Dragonfly, by Jean Pasley

  • By Jann Williams
Review of a book inspired by and incorporating the work of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850 – 1904).

Book Review: Reading Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan

  • By Chad Kohalyk
A review of an anthology of writing on what rural life in Japan is like for foreigners.

Hearn 5: Story of a Fly

  • By John Dougill
Synopsis and commentary on a story.

Film Review: Impossible to Imagine

  • By Jann Williams
Review of a film set in Kyoto that addresses topical social issues in Japan.

Book Review: Japanese Wood and Carpentry – Rustic and Refined, by Mechtild Mertz

  • By Judith Clancy
A review of a book on wood in Japan including types of wood, history and more.

Kyoto: A Literary Guide video

  • By John Dougill
A five minute guided tour through a selection of Kyoto's remarkable literary heritage.

Hōjōki – a Personal Response

  • By Chad Kohalyk
On reading a new translation of Hōjōki by Matthew Stavros.

Book Review: Kyoto: A Literary Guide, edited by John Dougill

  • By John Dougill
Dougill presents a new work that he edited that takes the reader on a literary journey through 12 centuries of Kyoto.

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