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Travels with a Writing Brush

Travels with a Writing Brush

Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

By Meredith McKinney

Paperback / softback | ISBN 9780241310878

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A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years

Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize

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.

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780241310878
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages: 400
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 22

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