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Alleys
I talk about Japanese alleys. But perhaps I should call these alleys "little lanes." In my experience the alley is a small street, often dark even in the daytime because it is perhaps oppressed by very high walls.
But I cannot say the same about Japanese alleys, which, by contrast, are clear and crisp in the daytime, animated yes, but never too much so. So, these of which I write to you, are nothing more than small - very small - alleys. Little lanes, indeed. And in Kyoto, the houses that sh...