{"product_id":"the-kyoto-hours-9798184835518","title":"The Kyoto Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlos de Vesuneca\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe pattern made today will be erased tomorrow. This is not loss. This is the garden's way of being faithful.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Costa arrives in Kyoto's Arashiyama district on commission: a long-form piece on the philosophy of the karesansui - the Japanese dry landscape garden - and what it means to make and erase the same pattern every day. She finds Sōtarō Mizuki, the forty-seventh head gardener at a small sub-temple in the bamboo grove district, who has been raking the same garden every morning for twenty-three years and calls it not repetition but fidelity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSōtarō's pattern book - twenty-three handbound volumes recording every morning's pattern, its reasoning, and its seasonal context - is the practitioner's record in its most precise form: the evidence of twenty-three years of choosing what the day requires. The grief pattern after his predecessor's death. Three days of the same circle when his wife was ill. The absence of the wave form across forty years of the previous gardener's tenure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kyoto Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the practice that lives in the hours: the specific pre-dawn bamboo sound, the neutral gravel surface returned to potential each evening, and the forty-eighth gardener being formed right now in fifteen correct lines. It asks what it means to be faithful without a reason - and discovers that the reason is the practice itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Seven in the Elena Costa Series. Also available: \u003cb\u003eSalt on Your Dreams\u003c\/b\u003e (1), \u003cb\u003eLA Lonesome Nights\u003c\/b\u003e (2), \u003cb\u003eThe Light We Leave in Paris\u003c\/b\u003e (3), \u003cb\u003eAll the Quiet London Asks\u003c\/b\u003e (4), \u003cb\u003eSeven Bridges, One River\u003c\/b\u003e (5), \u003cb\u003eVenice Without Mirrors\u003c\/b\u003e (6).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus: Listen to the original title song \"Faithful Without a Reason\" - composed and produced by Bruce Whitecorner.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehttps: \/\/youtu.be\/09nv5rmX6wM?si=g9NFHKTzIEdH6SsA","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48211702513815,"sku":"9798184835518","price":1336.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798184835518.webp?v=1788720681","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-kyoto-hours-9798184835518","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}