Authors’ presentation and social event, Nov 15.Report by Felicity Tillack (photos by her unless otherwise stated) On a beautiful November Sunday afternoon in northern Kyoto city, the WiK members congregated for a special social and celebratory event. The main reason for the gathering was to support authors whose books were published in the time of …Read More
Category: Kyoto Books (Page 2 of 4)
Books set in Kyoto
This is the first chapter of a novel titled Kyoto Dreamtime being written by Everett Kennedy Brown. ************************ Chapter 1 The Voices in Rocks “Quietude in the temple grounds. Quietude in the surrounding hills and forests. In the stillness you can hear them. The rocks. Listen to the way they murmur. Listen to how …Read More
Book review by John Dougill There’s often a mystery about why some books last and others fade from public awareness. That certainly applies in this case, because for some reason this reviewer fails to understand, A Zen Romance fails to come up in talk of best novels about Japan. Shamefully it was not even included …Read More
A report written by Ruth Williams who calls Melbourne, Australia home. The launch took place on September 22, 2019. Every good book deserves further acknowledgement and the third Writers in Kyoto Anthology qualifies. Following the Japanese launch held in Kyoto in June, an Australian launch took place in Tasmania in late September. This was fitting …Read More
A book review by John Dougill. Stone gardens are an art form in themselves, different from other garden types and with distinctive features. As Stephen Mansfield shows in the early chapters of his book, the stone garden drew on diverse origins – animist use of sacred rocks and space; Chinese idealisations of nature; the Japanese …Read More
“Encounters With Kyoto” Book launch– report by Iris Reinbacher On Saturday, June 22nd, WiK held the official launch party for the 3rd Writers in Kyoto Anthology, called Encounters With Kyoto. About half of WiK’s members came all the way to Umekoji Park’s Midori Building, where Jann Williams had set up a room full of food, …Read More
On sale now from amazon.com, amazon.co.jp and other Amazon marketplaces. (Revised 2021) Edited by Jann Williams and Ian Josh YatesForeword by Juliet Winters Carpenter Inside these covers lies the third collection of enticing works by Writers in Kyoto. From gardens to gangsters, temples to tourism, ceramics to Casablanca, the diverse writings of 22 authors will …Read More
Ryoma! The Life of Sakamoto Ryoma: Japanese Swordsman And Visionary By Shiba Ryotaro Translated By Paul McCarthy And Juliet Winters Carpenter. (526 pages) Reviewed by Ian (Josh) Yates For the first time the bestselling historian Shiba Ryotaro’s most epic tale will be translated for an English readership. Shiba spent many years, eight volumes and thousands …Read More
Our attention has been drawn to a useful resource in Japanese of poetry about Kyoto. It’s part of an extensive website called Japan Note, covering various aspects of history and culture as can be seen on its home page. For 20 waka poems in Japanese about Kyoto, click here. For 30 different tanka in Japanese …Read More
Book Launch Nov 18, 2017 Report by Andrew Sokulski Zozaya, WiK intern Saturday night a splendid celebration was held in high spirits for the book launch of John Dougill and John Einarsen’s Zen Gardens and Temples of Kyoto. There were writers, artists, scholars, priests, tour guides and Kyoto Journal interns in the audience. A wonderful musical performance was held, …Read More
WiK 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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