EAN: 9780593732540

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021 during the pandemic shutdown of Japan's borders one particular walk around the Kumano Kodåo routes--the ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan's southern Kii Peninsula--took on an unexpectedly personal new significance. Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town his experiences as an adoptee his unlikely relocation to Japan at nineteen and his relationship with one lost friend whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. For Mod the walk became a tool to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when 'you're bored out of your skull and the miles left are long.' Tracing a 300-mile-long journey Things Become Other Things folds together history literature poetry Shinto and Buddhist spirituality and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen multi-generational inn owners farmers and kissaten cafe 'mamas'"--

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