Isabella Bird and Japan : a reassessment
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書誌事項
Isabella Bird and Japan : a reassessment
Renaissance Books, c2017
- : hardback
- タイトル別名
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イザベラ・バードと日本の旅
Izabera Bahdo to nihon no tabi
大学図書館所蔵 全20件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
English translation of: イザベラ・バードと日本の旅
Originally published: 東京 : 平凡社, 2014. NII書誌ID <BB16855756>
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264) and index
Includes chronology ("The life of Isabella Bird"): p. 259-262
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text.
目次
[Plate Section faces page 108]
Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG
Author's Preface to the English Edition
Translator's Preface
Translator's Notes
Preface to the Japanese Edition
Maps of Isabella Bird's Travels in Japan (Figs 1-3)
CHAPTER 1: Interpreting Bird's Travels and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
* A scientific study
* The three original works and their Japanese translations
* Bird's vocabulary and the translation challenge
* The importance of place names
CHAPTER 2: Isabella Bird - A Life of Travel
PART 1: FROM BIRTH TO BIRD'S PERIOD I JOURNEYS: CANADA AND AMERICA
* A clergyman's daughter
* Bird's home life and character
* Bird's Period 1 journeys: Canada and America.
* The second journey to America and her father's death
* Move to Scotland and her mother's death
* Bird's attempts at slum improvement and serious illness
PART 2: BIRD'S PERIOD II AND III JOURNEYS: AUSTRALIA, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, JAPAN
* Start of Bird's Period II journeys: Australia and New Zealand
* Hawaiian Islands
* Rocky Mountains
* Back home from her Period II journeys
* Background to planning the Japan trip
* Preparing for Japan: Bird's Period III journeys
PART 3: POST-JAPAN AND EVENTS IN BIRD'S LATER YEARS: JOURNEYS FROM THE LATTER PART OF PERIOD III TO PERIOD VI
* Two journeys on her way home: The Malay and Sinai Peninsulas
* Rapidly-changing personal circumstances
* A visit to Ireland : prelude to Bird's Period IV journeys
* Bird's Period IV journeys: Lesser Tibet, Persia and Kurdistan
* Bird as a lecturer and major travel personality
* Bird's Period V Journeys: three years in a rapidly-changing Far East
* Subsequent activities and trip to Morocco: Bird's Period VI journeys
* Final years
* A life of travel
CHAPTER 3: Aspects of Bird's 1878 Visit to Japan
* No regional or time constraints
* Special interior travel permit
* Plant-collecting
* First trip with a servant-interpreter Contents ix
* The route
* Horses and jinrikishas of the Land Transport Agent
* The British Legation
* Missionary agenda
* Bird's letters
* Press reports
* Planning the journey with Parkes
* Ainu society
CHAPTER 4: Access and Support in Japan
* Minister and Lady Parkes
* The Foreign Ministry
* Accounts by Stoddart and North
* Bird's letters
* Satow and the three consuls
* Assistance from missionary organisations
* Chamberlain and others
* French and Austrian Legations
* Japanese Foreign Ministry and Hokkaid? Development Commission
* Japanese Home Ministry
CHAPTER 5: The Legacy of Bird's Stay in Japan
PART I: BIRD AND HER CIRCLE
* On Bird herself
* On Chamberlain
* On Parkes 17
* On It? Tsurukichi
PART 2: WHAT BIRD'S TRIP AND UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN MEAN FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA ISABELLA BIRD AND JAPAN
PART 3: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE REVIVED TRAVELOGUES
* Travelogues forgotten and revived
* Understanding Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
* Two illustrations of Mt Fuji and their message
Endnotes
Postscript to the Japanese Edition
Chronology: The Life of Isabella Bird
Bibliographies
Index
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