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

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Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho - McKinney, Meredith (Translated by)
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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 ...

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Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho 2019, Penguin Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780241310878

Mass-market paperback