false 131101 7 When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.<br><br>All this he did. And then he met Sachiko.<br><br>Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new. 2954374 1991 The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto total:176|5:41|4:75|3:43|2:15|1:2| 176 666 276 31 5 1 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 18 17:25:51 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 19 12:18:37 -0700 2008 The Lady and the Monk is a mostly forgotten classic in the vein of travel writing. I had never even heard of it before chancing across it while perusing writings about Japan at Powell's. I ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Jan 17 22:57:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 23:04:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:44:18 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:55:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 12:49:58 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 21:11:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 14:31:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 20:42:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 29 08:36:24 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:01:57 -0700 2009
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