Kyoto geisha
Jamie visits Japan's Kyoto Geisha district for some traditional food, dress and tea! Thursday, November 13, 2003 Jamie visits Japan's Kyoto Geisha district for some traditional food, dress and tea! Jamie Durie was in Japan on a garden assignment ... [... more]
Getaway |
Japanese Houses
Don visited some houses to find out how the Japanese actually live. The first was a 20 year old country house, and the second a town house in Kyoto. Some parts of this house were quite traditional, with paper walls and floor matting. Other parts ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Ryoanji Temple Gardens, Japan
Don visited Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto to see one of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese culture - a superlative Zen garden. Thought to have been created around 1488, the garden is 30m long from east to west and 10m from north to south. Five ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, ... [... more]
Random House |
Robert S. Devine
Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge ... [... more]
Random House |
Victoria Abbott Riccardi
Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form ... [... more]
Random House |
Temple St. Clair
Working in an airy studio above the streets of New York's SoHo, Temple St. Clair draws inspiration from varied and far-flung sources: a color in a Mannerist painting, an architectural element in a Venetian church or a Kyoto temple, the shifting ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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