Unbeaten tracks in Japan : an account of travels in the interior including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrine of Nikko
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan : an account of travels in the interior including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrine of Nikko
（Tut books, T）
C.E. Tuttle, 1973
- : pbk
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未踏の大地 : 東京より蝦夷地
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"未踏の大地 : 東京より蝦夷地"--Cover
Reprint of the 1880 ed
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内容説明
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 enteringhouses, 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.
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