Scottish Poetry Library – From Kyoto to Carbeth: Poems & plants from the hills
5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT. 0131 557 2876From Kyoto to Carbeth: Poems & plants from the hills
To walk a place day after day, season on season is to become more aware of the passing of a different sort of time from the human. Takaya Fujii and Gerry Loose, thousands of miles apart, both have this privilege. Their conversations developed in walking together, in Kyoto and Scotland, in the poetry of the wild and in the formality of ikebana. Takaya selected a plant from the hills for each month of the year, a plant
which had personal and cultural significance, and Gerry responded by making poems. Extended by the involvement of a calligrapher and a ceramicist, this rare JapaneseScottish collaboration is a fitting celebration of our place in a beautiful world.
1 Aug - 12 Sept
Mon - Fri 11am - 6pm
Sat 1pm - 5pm
Admission Free
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