Writers in Kyoto

Category: Reviews

Book Review: Hidden Japan, by Alex Kerr

  • By Rebecca Otowa
Kerr on places he'd rather you not visit. Instead he offers wonderful descriptions.

Book Review: Karen Hill Anton’s Moving Portrait of Love and Loss in 1970s Japan

  • By Rebecca Otowa
A review of a novel set during the early half of the decade of the 1970s.

Book Review: The Kimono Tattoo

  • By Rebecca Otowa
Review of a debut fiction work based around kimono.

On Seeing

  • By WiK Admin
Words and photos from the author's latest publication.

Kyoto Journal 104 — Flora & Kyoto

  • By WiK Admin
Description of the contents of KJ104.

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 WiK Admin
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 John Dougill
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 WiK Admin
A review of a book featuring two couples.

A Passion for Japan

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

Book Review: Wintermoon, by Robert Maclean

  • By John Dougill
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 John Dougill
A Q&A with the author of Kanazawa.

Book Review: Structures of Kyoto (WiK Anthology 4)

  • By Karen Lee Tawarayama
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 John Dougill
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 Mike Freiling
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 John Dougill
A review of stories that the reviewer calls both challenging and entertaining.

Kyoto Journal 100 Views of Kyoto

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

Kyoto Journal 100

  • By WiK Admin
Announcement of a very special print issue of Kyoto Journal.

Book Review: Black Dragonfly, by Jean Pasley

  • By WiK Admin
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 WiK Admin
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.

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