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Travels with a writing brush : classical Japanese travel writing from the Manyōshū to Bashō / selected and translated by Meredith McKinney.
Van Pelt Library PL726.57.T75 T73 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, Japanese.
- Japanese literature--Translations into English.
- Japanese literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Classical Japanese travel writing from the Manyōshū to Bash
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Penguin Books, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who prefigured geisha; travelling monks who sleep on pillows of grass and listen to the autumnal insects; and a young girl who passionately longs to travel to the capital and read more stories. Taking in songs, dramas, tales, diaries and above all, poetry, this wonderful anthology roams over mountains and along perilous shores to show how profoundly travel inspired the Japanese imagination.
- Contents:
- Manyoshu
- The Ise tales
- Tosa diary / Ki no Tsurayuki
- Ionushi's pilgrimage to Kumano / Zoki
- The pillow book / Sei Shonagon
- Wakan Roeishu / compiled by Fujiwara no Kinto
- Eight poems / Noin
- Sarashina diary /Sugawara no Takasue's daughter
- Dust dancing on the rafters / compiled by retired Emperor Goshirakawa
- The tale of the Heike
- The tale of Saigyo
- Senjusho
- Journey along the sea road
- Journey to the East
- Diary of the waning moon / Abutsu
- Pilgrimage to Kumano / Myoku
- A tale unmasked / Lady Nijo
- A gift for the Capital / Sokyu
- Sumida River / Kanze Motomasa
- Journey to Shirakawa / Sogi
- Journal of the Tsukashi Road / Sogi
- The death of Sogi / Socho
- Journal of the Kyushu Road / Hosokawa Yusai
- Bones on the wayside / Matsuo Basho
- The narrow road of Oku / Matsuo Basho.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xxxiii) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780241310878
- 0241310873
- OCLC:
- 1129129329
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