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(★)(What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone and everything you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household?／ ´At Home in Japan´ tells the story of author Rebecca Otowa´s personal journey from suburban California to rural Japan, where she marries into a traditional Japanese family and becomes the steward of a household that has lived in the same farmhouse for the past 350 years.／ The book traces a circular path, from the details of life in the house and village, through relationships with family, neighbors, and the natural and supernatural entities with whom the author shares the house. Otowa then reflects on her inner life, touching on some of the pivotal memories of her time in Japan, the lessons in perception that Japan has taught her, and the ways in which she has been changed by Japan.／ Otowa poignantly recounts her chosen life, her misgivings, her compromises, and her mistakes. She takes us inside a social circle that is virtually unseen and unknown to outsiders. By living close to nature in a traditional manner, the author discovers and relates many insights into the Japanese character and changing way of life.／ ◆Rebecca Otowa has been, for nearly 30 years, the chatelaine of a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan. She left her original home in California in 1967, and her adopted home of Australia in 1978, to strike out in a radically new life direction. She and her husband Toshiro have raised two sons and now live in a rural village near Kyoto, in a farmhouse that has been in the family since it was built in the 1600s. As well as writing and teaching English, Rebecca loves growing vegetables and roses, reading ［with one of her four cats on her lap］, sewing, cooking, and voraciously watching English-language movies. her social life is divided between local volunteer groups and´the stage´ -music, amateur theatricals and country line dancing. her happiest days are when her sons return home with their families and everyone is together again.) |
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