Gordon Hirabashi Library at EJCA
Book Reviews
Book: Kateigaho Culture and Arts International Edition (家庭画報 日本文化と美術)
Author: Various
Contributor: Sanae Ohki
Review:When I was wandering around a book store in Tokyo, a beautiful English magazine caught my eyes. It was a Culture and Arts book that is published twice a year by Kateigaho Publishing. I bought four back numbers for the library.
The most current edition includes topics and pictures about “Beat the Heat in Edo Style – Traditionally the Japanese have been dealing with heat in summer by saying that heat is as much a frame of mind as an actual lowering of the ambient temperature: glass ware, Sudare (bamboo screens), Furin (wind chimes), Uchiwa (fans), light and shadow designs in the house, summer sweets, indigo color, and so on were used to achieve this frame of mind to live with summer heat.
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