Recalling Steve Jobs' love affair with Kyoto

Tech tycoon saw Zen simplicity in ancient capital's art, gardens, sweets

KOKI IZUMI, Nikkei staff writer

KYOTO -- Steve Jobs, who transformed U.S. gadget maker Apple into a multinational tech giant, visited Kyoto a number of times during his life. He learned from Japan's Soto school of Zen Buddhism and, in a biography, said that Zen Buddhism was aesthetically sublime, and that the sublimity of Kyoto's gardens were a reflection of that faith.

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