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Alex Kerr arriva per la prima volta in Giappone a tredici anni, e si trova di fronte un Paese meraviglioso e misterioso, ancora disseminato delle tracce di una cultura di straordinaria bellezza ed eleganza che sta scomparendo sotto i colpi implacabili della modernità. Kerr decide di fare di "quel" Giappone l'oggetto delle proprie ricerche e della propria passione: si laurea a Yale in giapponese, a Oxford in cinese, si stabilisce a Kyoto e diventa in breve tempo uno dei più stimati studiosi di cultura giapponese. Nei primi anni Settanta acquista una antica dimora rurale nella valle di Iya, una remota località montuosa dell'isola di Shikoku: la restaura con grande attenzione ai materiali e alle tecniche tradizionali e ne fa il punto di partenza di una personale e appassionata ricerca nei confronti del Giappone che scompare. In questo libro, scritto originariamente in lingua giapponese, Kerr ci introduce alle magiche ombre del teatro kabuki, all'arte della calligrafia, alla cerimonia del tè, all'architettura tradizionale, alla semplice bellezza degli oggetti del passato, ai templi zen e ai santuari shintoisti, ai rituali e ai misteri della vita quotidiana; descrive le bellezze. Postfazione di Bando Tamasaburo.
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- Pagine: 318
- Data di uscita: 18-04-2019
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This is about as irritating as a book can get. Kerr majored in Japanese Studies at Yale. However, his handle on historical facts is almost non-existent, seemingly learned by watching movies, and reading 'Shogun'. His observations are accurate, but his handle on historical facts is shaky at best, and Leggi tutto
Alex Kerr is one of those writers you have to end up reading when you live here. There's this book and Dogs and Demons , which invariably tend to signal the end of the Japan Honeymoon for any long-time resident. To explain - for a lot of people who come here, Kerr included, there's a kind of romantic Leggi tutto
In preparation for a vacation to Japan, my mother gave me this one to read. Its main themes are about the loss of important Japanese cultural traditions and the uglification of both the body and the soul of Japan. The author is an art collector, calligrapher, Japanologist and long time resident of t Leggi tutto
A good travel book should make you marvel at the world. It should restore your faith in the unknown. It should show you that adventure can be found any and every place. It should make you feel like a child again. Lately, some of the most remarkable travel books I've read (Road to Purification, Arabi Leggi tutto
I've (temporarily) relegated this "insightful" memoir to my Abandoned shelf. "Insightful"? Very much so! "Insightful" regarding Kerr's huge ego and narcissism!! There's not a shred, an iota of humility in this author that I found half way through reading this! Got as far as the chapter "Calligraphy" Leggi tutto
so according to this book japanese people are such dummies that they don't understand their own economy, their own culture or even how to light their houses. good job this one american guy is here to show them how! incredible generalisations, pig headed orientalism, plus the author decrys the uglific Leggi tutto
Przyjemny zbiór zasługujący na 4,5 gwiazdki. Raczej nie dla osób, które chcą w Japonii widzieć romantyczny kraj samurajów, popełniających seppuku na jedno skinienie ich pana. Albo ulotny świat gejsz, herbaciarni, świątyń shinto i buddyzmu czy pełnych pokory perfekcjonistów. Ani też dla osób, które w Leggi tutto
I have been involved in teaching Asian studies in high school for almost 10 years, and this has to be the best book on Japan I have ever read. It is very accessible to westerners because it is written by an American who has spent most of his adult life living in Japan and Asia. Kerr is an admitted J Leggi tutto
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