By John Dougill
Kyoto, the traditional former capital of Japan, breathes background and secret. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and spiritual grandeur. below the veneer of modernity, town continues to be full of numerous reminders of a proud prior. John Dougill explores this so much venerable of eastern towns, revealing the spirit of position and the participants that experience formed its usually dramatic historical past. Courtiers and courtesans, poets and clergymen, samurai and geisha humans the pages of his account. overlaying twelve centuries in all, the booklet not just offers a ancient evaluation but additionally brings to existence the cultural beauty of the town of "Purple Hills and Crystal Streams."
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