The Kyoto lesson is a simple sketch made upon arriving to Japan. The texts are taken, in order, directly from the www.About.com website’s “Phrase of the Day” archive of useful Japanese sentences. With an interesting combination of the banal and the ideal, the editors’ choices of texts offer a revealing insight into Japanese culture, whereby a foreigner’s broken attempt to learn the language serves as a reflection of the broader question of adapting to such frameworks and societal norms.
