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Pico Iyer

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Born in Oxford, England in 1957, resident since 1992 in suburban Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California.
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Seicho Matsumoto's A Quiet Place Is a Dark Fairy-Tale of Post-War Japan

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Japan, more than anywhere I know, runs along straight and well-determined lines, bringing you to where you need to be as smartly as a bullet-train. When A Quiet Place begins, we’re at a typical corporate dinner, of the kind that’s playing out all around me as I sit  at my desk here in Nara. Everyone knows his place and almost everything is scripted in advance. The host entertains the visitor, an agreement is decided upon without words being exchanged, and success is more or less guaranteed.
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Pico Iyer’s Hybrid Honeymoon

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Pico Iyer's Hybrid HoneymoonTenzin Geyche Tethong (Tenzin Geyche Tethong) The author and his wife Hiroko with the Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas, 1999. With its candlelit palaces and jeweled archways, India can be one of the most romantic places on earth. My longtime Japanese fiancée had been dreaming of it ever since she was a girl in Kyoto with a crush on Indian child actor Sajid Khan. So where better to honeymoon?
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The Geisha Next Door

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I’d hardly arrived in Kyoto’s brand-new Capella hotel when a maiko, or apprentice geisha, materialized in the intimate reception area and, in front of a small, golden screen, began presenting slow and graceful dances. Afterward, she answered questions (the hardest thing about her job, she said, was keeping her hair intact for long stretches) and posed prettily for photos. Then she handed each of the six of us in attendance a name card and vanished into the dusk.
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