It appears that when the Japanologist Alex Kerr was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, his tutors despaired at his unorthodox use of his time there, with one particularly testy don complaining, ¡°He researches only the ephemera that draw his interest,¡± going on to rail against Kerr¡¯s fascination with ¡°superstitions, myths and oddities.¡±
Another Kyoto, by Alex Kerr with Kathy Arlyn Sokol.336 pagesSEKAI BUNKA PUBLISHING, Nonfiction.
The tutor¡¯s final word on this non-scholastic approach to research was that his young charge ¡°waves these peculiar interpretations around as if they were sparklers.¡± In Kerr¡¯s latest work, from which these anecdotes were taken, we get plenty of sparklers, small but telling illuminations into whatever engages the author¡¯s curiosity. For this we must be grateful.
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