Travels with a Writing Brush

Name: Travels with a Writing Brush
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241310878
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Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

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Travels with a Writing Brush is an enchanting collection that explores over a thousand years of travel writing from Japan. It offers insights into the country's landscapes, culture, and history, through diary entries, poems, and essays penned by various authors. This anthology captures the spirit of exploration and the art of travelling as observed through the eyes of ancient and medieval Japanese writers.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by historical Japanese culture, as it offers a rich mosaic of travel diaries and poetry from Japan’s classical period. This collection provides a window into Japan's fascinating landscapes and social customs through the insightful eyes of its travelers and poets.

Travels with a Writing Brush

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A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years

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 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.

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Travels with a Writing Brush is celebrated as a delightful anthology that traces the evolution of travel writing in Japan through various literary forms. It is praised for its remarkable translation and scholarship, filled with vignettes of Japanese life. The work is considered a marvel of elegant scholarship, with commentary and annotations that promise to last generations. The book resonates with both contemporary and historical relevance, even engaging readers unfamiliar with Japan, making it a fascinating and beautiful work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241310878

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Translated by Meredith McKinney

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 291g

Pages: 400

Collections

Biography & Memoir General Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Travel & Adventure

About the Author

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.