The following extracts are taken from pages 347-350 of In My Own Way, the autobiography of Alan Watts. *************** Ogata-sensei arranged to get us into Ryoanji -– The Temple of the Dragon Hermitage – after visiting hours, so that we could see the rock-and-sand garden in the stillness before twilight, when all the tourist and …Read More
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An intriguing blog entitled Ten Thousand Things from Kyoto carries an article suggesting that a chance encounter in Kyoto had world-changing repercussions. The meeting concerned Gary Snyder and Daniel Ellsberg, whose name is famous for the Pentagon Papers that in 1971 exposed US military decision-making in the Vietnam War and which played a decisive role …Read More
Dream Song 73: Karesansui, Ryoan-ji by John Berryman (from his visit to Kyoto in 1957) The taxi makes the vegetables fly.‘Dozo kudasai,’ I have him wait.Past the bright lake up into the temple,shoes off, andmy right leg swings me left.I do survive beside the garden I came seven thousand mile the other waysupplied of energies …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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