The postman has been kind today, delivering another ‘Postcard From Home.‘
However today’s mail comes from a place worlds away from Concord, Sydney. It comes from Kyoto, Japan, a place of unbridled beauty and centuries-old tradition, where travel journalist and photographer, Rachel E T Davies, writes to us from the former imperial capital.
A “Gai’jin living in Kyoto” (foreigner in Japanese), Davies has called Higashiyama, Kyoto home for the past five years. But instead of glamorous Geisha slinking through the labyrinthine-like streets of Gion or travel zealots keen to snap every last morsel of Uji matcha, an exceptional quiet has fallen over the once-teeming city.
Here, Davies describes what isolation looks – and feels – like in Kyoto, and how even in the strangest times, beauty can be found…
