A Beginner's Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer

Author:Pico Iyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Editions of The Tale of Genji come with seventy closely packed pages of genealogy. But the book’s author, Lady Murasaki, never mentions either her late husband or her small daughter in her diary.

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At Kyoto’s most exclusive inn, Tawaraya, its thousand-dollar-a-night rooms often the preserve of European royalty or Hollywood movie stars, many of the staff don’t speak English. Finding English-fluent workers would not be hard, but part of the grace of the inn is to see that English doesn’t go with shuffling feet and kimono, with seasonal delicacies and polite demurrals. The most essential things come across without words.

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