A Year in Japan : 30 Postcards (Postcard book or pack)

from chibimajo

Ended up mostly just skimming this book, it was a bit of a disappointment. The illustrations to go with it were lovely, and sometimes said more than the short descriptive passages of Japanese life. It's really just a collection of short snippets of life from Japan. There's no real detail about ev...

from quondame

A book of pretty pictures, outlined in black with water color like fill. It is idiosyncratically impressionistic, and gets sparse in text in the last 3rd. The pictures don't strike me as original in any way and sometimes need to be figured out.

from bookbrig

Sweet and light, with charming sketches and drawings. I enjoyed the little bits of text, and just about all of them left me more curious than I was at the start. Super quick read, even if you linger over some of the art.

from booksmitten

Kate Williamson has created not so much a linear travel narrative as a kalaidescope of stunning colors and images that she gathered throughout the year she lived in Japan. She doesn't neglect the expected cherry blossoms or sushi lunches, but she also shares with us sumo wrestlers at ATMs, elegan...

from on_elc

It's really more a collection of watercolor art with some very brief essays thrown in. The author went to study sock design in Japan for a year, and took down notes and sketches of all sorts of aspects of Japanese life. It's really a pretty little book - the art isn't perfect or photorealistic, b...