BINDER
Compose
The passport photo
The first two years in Kyoto I worked with ISEAS, the Italian School of East Asian Studies. At that time I lived at the "Ise Dorm," a dormitory in the Okazaki area.
I really liked the area, very close to the center, quiet and stately, and it seemed to me to represent Kyoto city perfectly.
The dormitory, on the other hand, was, alas, the old and dilapidated house of two elderly men who had jumped into the business of teaching English perhaps twenty years earlier and who had also put to use...