Rebecca Otowa

Oct 8, 2024 | shepherd.com | Amy Chavez |Alex Kerr |Rebecca Otowa |John Ross

This is one of the first books on Japan that I read when I moved to the country in 1997, and it still resonates with me. While still a college student, Alex Kerr buys a rundown farmhouse in the Iya Valley of Shikoku, re-thatches it, and maintains the traditional Japanese architecture of pre-WWII Japanese wooden houses. Kerr went on to write many more books on Japan, most of which have become classics.