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Some titles your subscribers might enjoy about foreigners experiencing Japan are:
Walking in Circles, Finding Happiness in Lost Japan, A Shikoku Memoir by Todd Wassel. Todd walks the 750 mile, 88 temple Shikoku Henro pilgrimage.
The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip. Leila apprentices with a master potter.
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North, Journey Into a Lost Japan by Lesley Downer. Lesley follows the path north taken by the poet Basho.
A Japanese classic is Botchan by Natsume Soseki. In a good translation it's very funny.
A wonderful guidebook to the city of Kyoto is On Foot in the Ancient Capital by Judith Clancy.
Thank you for the recommendations!
@@Exjapter If I may add one more title:
Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto by Leslie Buck. Leslie is the first American woman to learn artistic pruning from one of the most storied landscape companies in Kyoto.
Good recomendations, try Alan Booth's three books; 'The Roads to Sata', 'Looking for the Lost', 'The Great Stage of Fools'.
You can enjoy a glimpse of a Japan that has vanished by now.
The only constant is change.
Love the channel and many thanks for the intriguing recommendations. Have you read Alan Booth's "Looking for the Lost" or "The Roads to Sata"? Both are perceptive, densely descriptive and erudite, with Booth's evident love for Japan shining through. I think you should seek them out!
I am not familiar with the Booth so I will seek it out. Thank you!
Thank you! I will look into these books.
An excellent list, including some which really helped inform me in my first few years here.
I highly recommend another of Donald Richie's books, The Japan Journals: 1947-2004.
And in a completely different vein, a really entertaining travelogue: Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson.
Thank you. Making this video has turned out to be more useful for me than anyone, thanks to all the suggestions!
Great vid, thanks! One of my big J. regrets while living in Tokyo in the 90’s was meeting Richie on the Ginza Line (after attending many of his lectures / film intros pre-screenings), and, after cadging a book autograph, he gave me his Ueno # and proposed a dinner, but I was too awestruck to follow up, dang it. Re: Kyoto, a French diplomat in the 60’s named Gouverneur Mosher wrote Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide, which is also fantastic. I found traces of gold leaf he writes about behind doors at Ryoanji the tour guides didn’t even know about. I was lucky enough to meet Von Wolferen at Shin Hinomoto in Yurakucho (by chance) as well + Good Day Books in Ebisu had some epic evening talks with the likes of grumpy old boozers such as E. Seidensticker, et al - all sadly gone now, but nice to hear not forgotten quite yet. Thanks for the tips on the unknown (to me) books, as well!
Oh wow, that's amazing! I am jealous. Mosher is mentioned in Kerr's book as well, so that's on the list.
Excellent book suggestions! I am so grateful to you for this video!!
(especially as nowadays nobody seems to read them anymore)
And also, thank you for bringing to the spotlight so many good books that have been underrated or not known to the wide audiences.
(“Lost Japan” - absolute favourite!)
And especially I want to thank you for your deep passion and admiration about these books (it was totally visible from your kind introduction!)
Thank you for incredibly kind comment!
Thanks for the recommendations!
Alex Kerr is great but he really reinforces my bitterness and cynicism about Japan. I admire his fortitude thought.
Donald Richie’s book isn’t one I’ve read so I’ll have to order it. Thanks for your recommendation
Hidden Japan and Another Kyoto have none of the negatives you get in Lost Japan or Dogs and Demons although you can still feel some sad nostalgia for the places in Hidden Japan.
@@Exjapter thanks for the message. I can order for my library. Cheers
Thanks Paul for planting the seed of another collecting phase ( obsession), ebay and amazon is going to get a hammering now, i saw the youtube video of Masui's story, which is pretty interesting :)
Uh oh, lol. Next mid- week will be another ukiyoe video, so another thing you can collect.
@@Exjapter cool, Im interested in the ukiyoe :)
Thank you, Exjapter, for a really useful video! I look forward to reading "Hidden Japan" and some of the other recommended books. I wonder if you also read Japanese fiction? Novels, especially those reflecting Japan of today, is another way to getting to know the country. I have read some of Murakami's and Sayaka Murata's novels, but I am not sure what to read next. So I would love it if you would make another video like this one, in which you talked about your favorite Japanese novels (if you have any). Best wishes here from Denmark!
Sure, it seems sensible to cover the rest of my library at some point as people seem to really enjoy getting these recommendations. I have read a lot of Murakami, although admittedly in English rather than the original Japanese.
Those books sound like amazing reads! I will have to check them out sometime. Hopefully my local library has those books. I would love to read them. 😊
this is great ive been meaning to get back into reading to change my lifestyle but i couldnt decide on what id bother to read. That last one is certainly inspiring me!
Hidden Japan is on my to read list!
Your home looks lovely! Thank you for another wonderful video 😊
Thank you. 😊
I read Alex Kerr's Lost in Japan years ago.
I also read two books ( the other in China) by a British art scholar setting up an exhibition in a Japanese department store and his observations. The books came out in the 90s but I can't remember his name...
I don't think I am familiar with that one.
Amazing video! I would recommend to you "Matsushita Leadership" by John Kotter.
I havent read that one. Noted!
Thanks for this extensive list of recommendations📕 'Musui's Story' reminded me of a short manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, wouldn't surprise me if the manga was based on this book.
I am not familiar with that manga, will look for it.
I'm going to recommend a manga: Vagabond. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, but it's now on hiatus. It's very good 😊
That's a good one!
Another good historic book to read is Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton. It's an academic book that tells the true story of William Adams that became the inspiration for the book and TV Shows Shogun.
It's great to have a good balance between the traditional and the modern.
Thanks for the suggestions, I think I’d like to try Inland Sea first and maybe Hidden Japan.
That would not be a mistake.
Thank you for your recommended reading. I loved a book called, 'The Floating World' set in the late 1970s I believe. I read it when I was living in Kagoshima around 1990 and loved it.
Thank you!
Aaaaaah the video I was waiting for! Have only read The Inland Sea, wonderful, and have some Alex Kerr on the shelf I’ll get to and now others, thanks. Alan Booth The Roads to Sata would you recommend? Looking forward to the next 10%! hehe
Thanks for the book recommendations! I wrote them all down.
I just finished watching the Voices of the Past video 'Mediocre Samurai Describes Real Life in Historical Japan'. I was drawn right in!
Yeah, I need to find another one of those and make a video about it myself!
How do you usually get English books in Japan? Online or any specific bookshop?
Mostly Amazon to be honest. When I am back in my hometown I raid all of the local used booksellers. Probably 80% of my library is pre-owned.
You forgot: The Roads to Sata (Alan Booth), and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (Isabella Bird).
Well, my video was already 16 minutes long. If I did my whole library it would be a pretty full podcast! But thank you for putting those out there for people who read the comments! 😊
(If you havent read Deer Cry Pavilion, Isabella Bird's writing appears in there.)
@@Exjapter Sorry, one more: A Ride in the Neon Sun (Josie Dew). I'd class all three as un-put-down-able.
Thank you, Paul! Brilliant, I happen to have 3 of those books unread in my shelf (and then some). Keep going with these things, please. I find them very helpful and satisfying, maybe even including a Japan that started to get me interested in the end-60s, when Japan was a far-away wonderland that as a child I knew I might never reach. That may or may not be around today or have been the basis of what is today!
@TimHudspith thank you. That one I am completely unfamiliar with, so will give it a go!
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Many Americans have recently come to Japan to buy real estates taking adovantage of the yen has weakened. They could buy homes at a giveaway price. One American uoroaded his renovated inexpensive cozy house he bought on youtube. But he put a chair on Tokonoma.
After watching that video, I let him know that the Tokonoma is a sacred space where he should not put a chair to sit. He got mad at me and told he could do whatever he want for his property. He also said that Tokonoma is just an alcove, which is absolutely not. He is insensitive and not man enough to admit his ignorance.
That is really unfortunate, I am sorry they had such a close-minded attitude.
Can I kindly ask for the you tube video link about that story of the Samurai? ❤thank you so much in Advance
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I think the title is "diary of a mediocre samurai"
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@@elenakursteiner4729 I don't know why iv tried to share this several times this week and it didn't work hope it does this time :)
Nope it didn't, it got deleted for some reason, the channel is called " voices from the past"
Are you ♒️ Aquarius ❤?
Not sure. Didnt the signs all shift 10 years ago or so?