At Home in Japan

A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery

Rebecca Otowa

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English

Tuttle Publishing
20 June 2017

Travel writing

What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household? At Home in Japan tells an extraordinary true story of a foreign woman who goes through an amazing transformation, as she makes a move from a suburban lifestyle in California to a new life, living in Japan. She dedicates 30 years of her life as a housewife, custodian and chatelaine of a 350yearold farmhouse in rural Japan. This astonishing book traces a circular path from were Rebecca began, to living under Japanese customs, from the basic day to day details of life in the house and village, through relationships with family, neighbors and the natural and supernatural entities with which the family shares the house.

By: Rebecca Otowa
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780804848718
ISBN 10: 0804848718
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20 June 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Otowa has lived in Japan for thirty years, leaving her original home in California in 1967, and her adopted home of Brisbane, Australia in 1978, to strike out in this new life direction. She and her husband Toshiro have raised two sons and now live in a rural area near Kyoto, in a 350-year-old farmhouse that has been in the family since its construction (or perhaps more accurately, the family has been in the house). As well as writing and teaching English, Rebecca loves growing vegetables and roses, reading (with one of her four cats on her lap), sewing, cooking, and voraciously watching English-language movies. Her social life is divided between local volunteer groups and ""the stage""--music, amateur theatricals and country line dancing. Her happiest days are when her sons return home with their families, and everyone is together again.

Reviews for At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery

-A wonderful book about an old Japanese house, a resourceful American woman, and how they come together to honor the past and forge a bright future. What Frances Mayes did for Tuscany, Rebecca Otowa just might have done for the Japanese countryside. Bravo!- --Leza Lowitz, author of Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo