Kyoto Journal finds Kuhaku worth coveting
Kuhaku, the bookThe latest issue of the Kyoto Journal has a great review of Kuhaku by reviewer and novelist Ellis Avery. It's not online, so you'll have to pick it up at your local bookstore, which is easy to do if you live in Japan. Here are a couple of snippets:
What better way to invite a reader to explore the lavish surfaces and lonely depths of contemporary Japan than with a book so well-designed it whispers covet me from across the room?
OK, Craig is taking a cold shower to calm himself down. Note to Craig: Let's splash that across the Kuhaku page on our site, huh? More from the review:
Inconclusive in the best possible way, by turns pointed and generous, Kuhaku paints a shifting portrait of a shifting place ...
(Canned coffee is) a tender and lacerating catalogue by David Cady.
David now joins Craig in the shower. And finally, Ellis calls our glossary a "slyly digressive oddbox of delights."
Shower time.

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