Tag: Kyoto characters

Uncle Goldfish

by Cody Poulton “About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters …” Auden, Musée de Beaux Artes On the wall of the little sitting room in our Kyoto house is a reproduction of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs, one of those delightfully busy portraits of a host of peasants up to no good. An …Read More

Alex Kerr Reminisces

(The following article first appeared in Echoes: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 2017) Three Old Men of Kyotoby Alex Kerr Harold StewartDavid KiddWilliam Gilkey I don’t know if young men are like this any more, but I was the sort of young man who sat at the feet of old men. I hung on their every …Read More

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