A review by simplymary
The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan by Andy Couturier

3.0

The library won’t renew after one cycle so I’ll have to let go of this book for now, though I haven’t finished it yet. The photographs are amateur and the writing pretty straightforward, but I was excited to find a book that fused together my two loves: minimalism and Japan. Each chapter highlights a different person or family living in a self-sufficient, simple way in rural Japan. They aren’t realistically lives I could duplicate, but it gives me a feeling of calm to see others attain simplicity.