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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Williamson spent a year living in Kyoto, Japan.  She went there to study, and kept a journal â€“ both of her thoughts and experiences, and of artwork she created to capture some of those experiences.  The result is very Japanese.  It combines watercolors and sketches with prose that enriches bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41134679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reads like a journal though it's clearly written for you, Williamson's audience.<br/><br/>The many watercolors are stunning in their simplicity, yet it's clear the author's paid great attention to every detail.<br/><br/>This makes a great gift -- especially if you're buying it for your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45589636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51024511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Editorial Reviews<br/><br/>Publisher's Weekly:<br/>&quot;Williamson's watercolors are playful, bright and spare, and each section illustrates a theme or topic that has inspired the artist/author over her travels to a country devoted to attention to detail. . . . For travelers to Japan, and those ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50539973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essentially, this is a picture book for adults. Williamson describes and illustrates snippets of Japanese culture she experienced during her year in Japan on scholarship. There were some pictures I wish she described more fully with text, but I like the mysterious nature of just evoking an image for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46226263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An even higher 3 than Kate T. Williamson's other book, &quot;At A Crossroads&quot;. A 3.99 out of 5 stars.<br/><br/>My only criticism is that her cursive took some decoding. And I'm not too into reading paragraphs of handwriting unless they're broken up into panels.<br/><br/>It's been over a yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73125769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Think of a scrapbook, blog, artist's notebook, traveller's journal, all tied into one.  Kate T. Williamson's <u>A Year in Japan</u> is a colorful, yet quaint documentary of one woman's experience as a foreigner entering into the beauty &amp; quirkiness of Japanese culture.  <br/><br/>The author takes us past...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42135995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This illustrated journal was very informative about &quot;the little things&quot; in Japan, like the hobby of moon-viewing, the plethora of sock designs, and electric heater rugs.  The watercolor pictures are for most part lovely, but I had some trouble reading the cursive font chosen for the text, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42345849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a series of beautiful watercolors and short text blurbs, created by a woman who lived in Japan for a year.  It's not a travelogue,  but rather tiny portraits of random things that capture what it's like to live in Japan.  This is a book written by a person who knows what Japan is like for th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ÒAlia Johnson: I received this book for Christmas from OWLP board member Annie.  It was a prep gift for Gailer's trip to Japan.  I immediately fell in love with it and read through it in one sitting that night.  It ofers wonderful pictures and cultural fact for any age.     -----     Library Descrip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44805868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really lovely book, simply organized, but in the way that Real Simple Magazine is simply organized.  It's enticing, and elegant, and lovely.  Williamson obviously has such an affection for the country, and all of the elements in the book are the sorts of things that westerners would find i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63664075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent excellent book, although its not really a book, but rather a journal of bits and pieces of the author's favorite things about her year in Japan.<br/>The illustrations are gorgeous. Really, they're art work on their own. Beautiful!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely collection of watercolors and bits of writing done by a young woman who spent a year in Japan.  Beautiful and charming to look at.  I love how she focuses on quirky details..for example, amidst goregous little watercolors of Kyoto gardens, she will insert a carefully painted apple in excess...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1768809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sweet and light, with charming sketches and drawings. I enjoyed the little bits of text, and just about all of them left me more curious than I was at the start. Super quick read, even if you linger over some of the art.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book would have more of a narrative, but instead, it was very sparse, with simplistic pictures on one page and a handwritten anecdote (sometimes a few sentences) on the next. There wasn't much explanation as to why the author was in Japan, or how. I was also annoyed by the fact that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24069503">more...</a>]]></body>
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