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Thomas Daniell Author & Translator

Thomas Daniell is a practicing architect who has been living and working in Kyoto since the early 1990s. Widely published, he is a contributing editor for the architecture journals Mark and Archis. Akihiko Seki spent over 20 years working outside of Japan. He is the photographer and author of Asian Resorts and also photographed and co-authored Ryokan: Japan's Finest Spas and Inns. New Foreword by Matthew Stavros, an historian of early Japan at the University of Sydney and the author of Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (UHawai'I, 2014). His research focuses on the urban and architectural history of Japan to about 1700.