Another Kyoto is an insiders meditation on the hidden wonders of Japans most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto and on lore gleaned from artists Zen monks and Shinto priests Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things a temple gate a wall a sliding door in a new way. A rich book of intimate proportions ... In Kyoto facts and meaning are often hidden in plain sight. Kerrs gift is to make us stop and cast our eyes upward to a temple plaque or to squint into the gloom of an abbots chamber Japan TimesKerr and Sokol have performed a minor miracle by presenting that which is present in Kyoto as that which we have yet to see. I know that I will never pass a wall or tread a floor or sit on tatami the same way again Kyoto Journal