g_reads23 's review for:

Another Kyoto by Kathy Arlyn Sokol, Alex Kerr

2.0

informative slow-paced

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I am giving it two stars because I did learn something. However it was very hard to tell what was the authors speculation about what he saw in Kyoto and what facts come from the local people / Japanese experts. For someone who had lived in Kyoto for decades, I was shocked the author cited practically no Japanese people as his sources in this book. Kerr makes sweeping generalizations about the Japanese people and their culture that was repeatedly off putting. To learn more about Kyoto, I would recommend y'all try a different book.