For this Kyoto edition, we independently scoped out more than 350 venues and distilled the list down to the very best of the ...

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Shinto, an ethnic faith of the Japanese ... with the vitality and wit that informs every page of the book, he sought not only to prolong his own life, but in the end to gain admission to the ...

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