ISBN: 9780804810005

In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to explore the interior. Ninety years ago Ja… More...

In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to explore the interior. Ninety years ago Japan was still a mysterious country to Westerners. Miss Bird must have presented a fearsome sight to Japanese villagers when she came into view clad in American mountain dress and Wellington boots. However the country people liked her. She took off her boots before entering houses, she was of small stature, of quiet voice, and courteous! Many of the Japanese she met had never see a European before. They were convinced all Westerners were uncouth barbarians. The Japan Isabella Bird describes is not the sentimental world of a Madame Butterfly, festooned with cherry blossoms. She describes real people in back country districts. Peasant life in Japan had never been easy but in early Meiji Japan, when the country was in a state of cultural shock following the opening of its doors to Western civilization, the drain of wealth from rural Japan to all-important Tokyo was particularly hard on the rural population. In this book we see a side of Japan that is little known today. The observant Isabella Bird provides us with a travelogue that is an anthropological document. We have before us a picture of ordinary Japanese life in the late 19th century. People, religion, food, temples, dress, superstitions and customs are laid out before us. Every page yields a new fascination. Her observations on the Ainu are unique in literature on Japan. Media > Book, [PU: Charles E. Tuttle Company]<

1973, ISBN: 0804810001

Paperback

[EAN: 9780804810005], [PU: Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT], ADVENTURE GUIDES ASIA TRAVEL TRAVEL: CLASSICS WRITING: JAPAN TRUE WOMEN'S EARLY TRAVELERS: 978-0804810005, Fine in Wraps: bindi… More...

[EAN: 9780804810005], [PU: Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT], ADVENTURE GUIDES ASIA TRAVEL TRAVEL: CLASSICS WRITING: JAPAN TRUE WOMEN'S EARLY TRAVELERS: 978-0804810005, Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 336pp. Introduction to this new edition by Terence Barrow, Ph.D., First Edition Thus [1973], so stated. Mass Market Paperback. This is one of the great travel books of all time. First of all it is an adventure. This English woman decided, for some strange reason of health, in 1878 to go to Japan and travel from Tokyo to the island of Hokkaido, roughly 500 miles as the crow flys but much longer by her route. She went "off the beaten track" where Westerners, men or women had never been before. Japan had been opened up to the West only 10 years before her journey. Word of her coming to a village (on horseback) caused such excitement that people that wanted a better view caused the roof of a building to collapse. Changing into night clothes was an ordeal because people would poke holes in the screens to watch her every move. Then there were the bugs and the rain storms and the rivers, etc., etc. This book is beyond well-written and a joy to read - it is a timeless classic., Books<

1978, ISBN: 9780804810005

336 Seiten, Sprache: Englisch Taschenbuch Gut Versand D: 4,95 EUR , [PU:Rutland VT/Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle]