While there are some great ideas contained within this book, I did find Sasaki a little too cool for school for this to be truly engaging. His obsession with Apple products obviously marks him as an idiot, for starters :) But seriously, this starts to feel like an advert for his own awesome taste in designer goods than a quest for minimalism.
It feels like his obsession with status via products (which he talks about at length in this guide) hasn't gone away, it's just that rather than display them on shelves and tables in his house, he pretentiously talks about materialistic things instead.
It's a shame he's such an unlikeable proponent of this noble art, as I did find a LOT to take away from the book's principles (I live in disorganised chaos for full disclosure!) and have already started reducing my clutter after having been inspired.

I really enjoyed Fumio Sasaki's take on Japanese Minimalism. The idea of getting rid of almost all of your earthly possessions seems like a daunting, if not impossible one. Fumio, who used to be a maximalist, teaches and encourages scaling down from a perspective that shows anyone can create a clean, minimalistic space. I would recommend to anyone wanting to downsize or create and keep a great living space.

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