'Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples'. Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the imag...(展开全部)

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

林内亚·斯泰特（Linnea Sterte） 瑞典插画家，处女作是《鲸落》（Disfacimento），其作品《秋蛙物语》获得国际安古兰漫画节最佳新人奖。

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother - from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back - this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of Thoreau's travels, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as literature and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, f...(展开全部)

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother - from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back - this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of Thoreau's travels, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as literature and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, f...(展开全部)

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is 'really about the Christian conception of art' and it is 'my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe "The Temp...(展开全部)