Kansai Cool - A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan Whelan ChristalPaperback / softback
Kansai Cool - A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan Whelan ChristalPaperback / softback In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the…
Specifikacia Kansai Cool - A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan Whelan ChristalPaperback / softback
Kansai Cool - A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan Whelan ChristalPaperback / softback
In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.Kansai--the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city of Osaka and the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe--has a character all its own, right down to its dialect, mannerisms, and cuisine. Worldly and otherworldly, spirited and spiritual, trendy and traditional, it's a place where past and future live side-by-side, sometimes at odds.Part Japanese travel book, part cultural commentary, these 25 spirited essays and 32 pages of color photos paint a broad yet penetrating portrait of the unique Western Japan region, It is home to some of Japan's oldest history and an area where the country's most time-honored arts and crafts still thrive.
Into the Cool
Journey into the Light
Journey Into the Void