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Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

$22.00
Author:Edited by Meredith McKinney
ISBN 13:9780241310878
Binding:Softcover
Language:English
Year:2019
Subject:Language and literature

About the Book

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 autumn 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.