A review by aruarian_melody
Another Kyoto by Kathy Arlyn Sokol, Alex Kerr

informative medium-paced

3.5

I don't think I was the target audience for this one. At the beginning the author points out that "what you will find here is not scholarship, and it is not to be given credit, all my protestations notwithstanding". His sources are mostly anecdotes and oral history. While that can be interesting, I found it difficult to separate which points are well-known and what is just speculation. I think someone with more knowledge about the presented topics might get more out of this. It isn't an introduction to Kyoto or Japanese culture. Still, a lot of these things were really interesting and the illustrations were phenomenal.