Cool Japan Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present by Sumiko Kajiyama

 Cool Japan Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present

by SUMIKO KAJIYAMA is a very good touristic book guide, absolutely informative, plenty of facts, characters, places of the old Japan that you will find interesting and punctual.

If you are planning a trip to Japan, this one will be a precious book to bring with you, discovering in this way, in its globality and totality a distant land plenty of fascination.

The guide published by Museyon starts with a quote by Albert Einstein. Visiting the place elaborated this though: "May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul." That Japan has always make the difference in terms of different vivibility, and because of their religion, a philosophy of life more calm, quiet and more spiritualistic is known.

The book opens with the history of Japan in dates; then, divided in several chapters the guide analyzes the various Japanes periods, influenced by writers, important families, men, with a detailed history and the influence that they brought to the land, suggesting at the same time to the tourists, places where to eat, temples, castles, and other remarkable sites that in the different areas can be visited. Because every part of the Japanese land is a discovery. 

Highly recommended book.

I thank Museyon for the copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori ù