Title: Too bad...
Product review: I like David Pybus and his writing. The contents seems well researched, etc., but what's going on with the illustrations?! They're the stereotypical depiction of "Japanese people" by Westerners unfamiliar with Japanese kimonos and Japanese cultures. The illustrations are such caricatures and are so awful that they make this otherwise decent book unauthentic and somewhat insulting. I'm really disappointed as I had high hopes for a book coming from someone like Mr. Pybus. Though I think David Pybus probably knows much more about fragrances and fragrance materials, I would recommend Kiyoko Morita's "The Book of Incense" over this book for information about kodo.
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