Craig Mod

Things Become Other Things (Fine Art Edition) a cloth-bound, foil-stamped book about walking thousands of kilometers of the Kii Peninsula of Japan. About walking those old Kumano Kodō paths — but not the ones you probably know. It’s about talking with a thousand fishermen and farmers and kissa owners, about communing with the mountain fauna, about hopscotching around leeches. It’s about floods and tsunamis and the capricious fecundity of nature. It’s about walking through a hundred old villages, many gone or soon to be gone. It’s about whispering priests and suddenly-appearing rain-soaked Irish priests and foul-mouthed little kids. It’s about the life of one lost friend, decades back, and an ocean away.

Things Become Other Things

Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan (Book One) is a book about walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.

How to Walk Japan, Book One

Kissa By Kissa

A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan’s ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heart-rending remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented alongside remarkable photographs.

Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan’s borders, one particular walk around the Kumano Kodō routes—the ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan’s southern Kii Peninsula—took on an unexpectedly personal new significance. While passing the peninsula’s shrinking villages, Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town, his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely relocation to Japan as a student at age nineteen, and his relationship with one lost friend, whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. As the days passed, he considered why he has walked so rigorously and religiously during his twenty-five years as an immigrant in Japan, contemplating the power of walking itself. For Mod, solo walks are a tool to change the very structure of his mind, to better himself, and to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when “you’re bored out of your skull and the miles left are long.”

Through the frame of a 300-mile-long pilgrimage walk, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe “mamas.” Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him "just what the heck are you, anyway?" Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature.

Things Become Other Things blends memoir and travel writing at their best, transporting readers to an otherwise inaccessible Japan, one only made visible through Mod’s unique bicultural lens.

A Walking Memoir

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Nel passaggio al digitale il libro si trova a rimettere in discussione sia il suo ruolo di contenitore, sia le consolidate e rassicuranti interfacce che gli appartengono da secoli, tra cui la copertina. Guscio protettivo del contenuto, prima, strumento di marketing nelle librerie, poi, la copertina scomposta in bit e fagocitata dal Web e dai colossi della vendita online come Amazon e iBookstore, si trova a dover quasi giustificare la sua presenza in un ebook.Quale la sua funzione oggi? Che cosa ha perso e che cosa potrebbe guadagnare nei formati digitali? Quali requisiti dovrebbe avere una buona copertina per libri elettronici?Craig Mod prova a rispondere tracciando un affascinate percorso tra il senso passato e il valore futuro di quella che fino ad oggi è stata la faccia di un libro. Il risultato non è scontato e la fine della copertina non è segnata, anzi oggi più che mai è tempo di reinventarla. | Questo ebook è lungo 32.000 battute. All'ebook è collegata un'area di discussione e confronto sui temi trattati, scoprila all'indirizzo http://sushi.apogeonline.com/forums/forum/reinventare-la-copertina

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This beautiful guide to Tokyo's most exciting art galleries is a must-read for art lovers planning trips to Tokyo or looking to understand the art scene in contemporary Japan. In-depth interviews with curators and essays by leading art critics bring these exciting art spaces to life for an English-speaking audience.

An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World

Art Space Tokyo

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