An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape culture history and future.
Originally written in Japanese this passionate vividly personal book draws on the author's
experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki
retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years and tells the
story of the hidden valley that became his home. But the book is not just a love letter.
Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old Kerr's book is part paean to that great
country and culture part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and
cultural destruction.
