Juliet Winters Carpenter Books
Seeing Kyoto
By Juliet Winters Carpenter Foreword By Soshitsu Sen
Tokyo may be the capital of Japan, but Kyoto is its heart and soul. The rich textures of twelve centuries of culture seem to have woven themselves into the very air. How else could you explain the...
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Eat Sleep Sit
By Kaoru Nonomura Translated By Juliet Winters Carpenter
At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training te...
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A Woman of Pleasure
An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strikeIn 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi...
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