
Kyoto Journal
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Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning quarterly publication that showcases life, culture and society in Japan and throughout the Asia region from a myriad of perspectives. It is also the longest independently run English journal based in Japan.
We now stock KJ's latest five issues:
Issue 95 - Wellbeing
Issue 94 - Inspired by Kyoto
Issue 93 - Food
Issue 92 - Devotion
Issue 91 - Living Sustainability
Measurements: 27.4 x 21 x 1 cm
112 Pages
Language: English
Printed in Japan
CONTENTS OF ISSUE 95
- Wellbeing as the Ground of Being
Ken Rodgers - The Power of a Moment:
Peace Artist Kazuaki Tanahashi
Codi Hauka - A Very Chinese Conception of Wellbeing
Bernard Kwan - A City Designed by Trees
Patrick M. Lydon - Holy Waters: Melukat in Bali
Amy Chavez - Tirta Empul: A Sacred Water Temple in Bali
Photo Essay by Aimery Joëssel - Karesansui Garden Therapy for Hospital Patients
Martin McKeller - Invitations to Stillness: Japanese Gardens as Metaphorical Journeys of Solace
Mark Hovane - Blessings
Pico Iyer - How I Healed from the Nepal Earthquake
Sushma Joshi - Doctor Stories
Dr. Kenjiro Setoue, translated by Jeffrey S. Irish - Readers’ Home Remedies
- Benedicto Marinas
- Helene Marie Thian
- Elisa Marchetti
- Rebecca Otowa
- Pathitta Nirunpornputta
- Mind Over Matter
Geraldine V. Verzo
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OUR KYOTO
Listening to Incense: A Sensory Immersion into Shoyeido’s 300-year-old Craft
Codi Hauka and Kyoko Yukioka -
CONVERSATION
Collaborating with the Universe: Reylia and Johnna Slaby discuss their unusual childhoods, creating art, and having the world shout back
Interview by Kyoko Yukioka - Poems by Shinkichi Takahashi
Translated by Ryan Choi - Glossary of Japanese Onomatopoeia for Gaijin
Michael Colbert
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