Lauren Scharf on Japanese traditional houses: minka and akiya
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Lauren Scharf on Japanese traditional houses: minka and akiya
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Lauren Scharf talks about Japan's minka, kominka and akiya houses in Japan.
MinkaCon 2025, is an event to be held from Nov. 7-9, in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture. The two-and-a-half-day event features discussions, presentations, workshops and a writers panel for those interested in life in the Japanese countryside and preserving traditional Japanese houses. There will be a bevy of authors present, many of whom we've featured in previous episodes of the Books on Asia podcast: Azby Brown, author of Just Enough (Ep 26); photographer and writer Everett Kennedy Brown; Alex Kerr (Lost Japan, Finding the Heart Sutra) (Ep 8) who will be beamed in via pre-recorded message; Iain Maloney author of The Only Gaijin in the Village (Ep 24); and David Joiner, author of The Heron Catchers and Kanazawa (Ep. 19).
Lauren's recommended books on Japan's countryside:
Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan (various authors)
The Only Gaijin in the Village, by Iain Maloney
The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter, by Amy Chavez
Just Enough by Azby Brown
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
Hokkaido Highway Blues, by Will Ferguson
The Books on Asia Podcast is co-produced with Plum Rain Press.
Podcast host Amy Chavez is author of The Widow, the Priest, and the Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island. and Amy's Guide to Best Behavior in Japan.
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