Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by McKinney, Meredith

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780241310878)

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Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by McKinney, Meredith

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

$18.00
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by McKinney, Meredith

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

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years

A Penguin Classic

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; traveling 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.

Author: Meredith McKinney
ISBN-10: 0241310873
ISBN-13: 9780241310878
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2020
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
By Meredith McKinney
By Meredith McKinney
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Meredith McKinney is a translator of Japanese literature, both contemporary and classical. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her translations for Penguin Classics include The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Essays in Idleness and Hojoki by Kenko and Chomei, and two novels by Natsume Soseki.

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