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Kyoto Journal 105: The Geography of Myth
Historical visions and an innovative strategy to revitalize Kyoto crafts
KJ 105 encompasses vast arcs in Japan’s mythical history and social geography through articles, photo-essays, and intriguing excerpts from the latest books by some of our favorite KJ-associated authors.
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KJ 105 encompasses vast arcs in Japan’s mythical history and social geography through articles, photo-essays, and intriguing excerpts from the latest books by some of our favorite KJ-associated authors.
Kyoto Journal 104: Flora & Kyoto
This special print issue explores the ubiquitous role of flora as an essential subtheme in Kyoto’s timeless culture through essays, interviews, and poetry, illuminated by superb photography and artworks.
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Kyoto Journal 103: Creativity (Digital)
In KJ013 – Creativity, we bring together the strivings of poets, musicians, visual and sculptural artists, photographers, art event curators, meditators and philosophers, even a part-time futurologist, to evolve new ideas and invent new forms.
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Kyoto Journal 102: Encounters/Transitions (Digital)
(Digital issue) In KJ102 we bring together accounts of formative experiences, in the context of historical momentum. (Approx. $6 US)
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Kyoto Journal 101: “Water in Kyoto”
The vital element of water has been one of Kyoto’s most characteristic features, ever since Heian-kyo was famous for its “purple mountains and crystal streams.”
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Kyoto Journal: 100 Views of Kyoto — A Tribute (Digital)
Kyoto Journal’s 100th Issue, now in PDF format with 18 additional articles
We’ve tapped regular and new Kyoto Journal contributors, including long-time residents and cultural experts, as well as international poets, writers, photographers and others to create a fresh collection of viewpoints, voices, reminiscences, personal accounts, sketches, photographs, and historical and literary quotes evoking the unique spirit of KJ’s hometown and inspiration, Kyoto.
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Kyoto Journal Issue 99: Travel, Revisited (Digital)
(US$5) Kyoto Journal’s 99th issue, on travel
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Kyoto Journal Issue 75 (Digital)
(US$4) This special issue is now available as a digital download!
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Kyoto Journal Issue 98: Ma (Digital)
(US$5) Kyoto Journal’s 98th issue special on ma.
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Kyoto Journal Issue 71: Tea (Digital)
(US$4.50) Kyoto Journal’s popular special issue is now digital!
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Kyoto Journal Issue 97
(US$19)
In a time of transitions—the start of the Reiwa Era, the turn of the decade, the return of the Olympics—KJ97 looks to those engaged in shaping the next phase of Japan’s history.
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Kyoto Journal Issue 95
(US$10)
From the green spaces of urban Osaka to the sacred ravines of Ubud: this issue delves into the Asian conception of wellbeing from a holistic standpoint. Receive with this issue a complimentary sachet of incense from Shoyeido Kyoto, est 1687.
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Kyoto Journal Issue 93
(US$11.40)
It sustains us. It inspires us. It enslaves us…KJ delves into the vibrant culinary cultures of Asia, all the while discovering what food really means to us.
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Kyoto Journal Issue 92
(US$9.25)
KJ92 was inspired by the symbols and practices of devotion that are so ubiquitous in our own city. But devotion, wherever practiced, in whatever tradition, transcends the self, and is a commitment to something less momentary, more closely aligned with the eternal…
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Kyoto Journal Issue 91
(US$10)
KJ91 looks at what it means to live “sustainably” and the efforts of those who, drawing on lessons of the past, seek to forge a brighter future—in the realm of education, through to architecture, food, wildlife conservation and tourism.
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