ENGLISH

Travellers' Tales of Old Japan

By Michael Wise

Book information

Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International
Year
2008
ISBN
9789814677325, 9789812617422
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
18 MB (19176100 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-08 12:05:57
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

Travellers in search of the unexpected found it in Old Japan. Here was a strange land indeed, where women blackened their teeth, men wore tattoos in lieu of clothing, and the whole family bathed together "with as much freedom as a flock of ducks". Visitors came in thousands and eagerly put pen to paper, commenting on everything Japanese, from curios to coolies, sake to samurai, etiquette to earthquakes. They left behind—in letters, diaries and memoirs—personal impressions of Old Japan, sometimes as revealing of the writers themselves as the country they came to visit. This book features 74 of these traveller's tales—many of them funny, others serious, but all a pleasure to read.

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