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J5630 --- J5923 --- J5511 --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: Literature -- collections, series and anthologies -- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868) --- Japanese diaries --- Women authors, Japanese.

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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married at age thirty-three and identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the writer as reader and an exploration of the power of reading to shape one's expectations and aspirations. As a person and an author, this writer presages the medieval era in Japan with her deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice. Her narrative's main thread follows a trajectory from youthful infatuation with romantic fantasy to the disillusionment of age and concern for the afterlife; yet, at the same time, many passages erase the dichotomy between literary illusion and spiritual truth. This new translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning. The introduction highlights the poetry in the Sarashina Diary and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose, which brings meta-meanings into play. The translators' commentary offers insight into the author's family and world, as well as the fascinating textual legacy of her work.

Authors, Japanese --- J5630 --- J5923 --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Sugawara no Takasue no Musume --- Sugawara no Takasue no Musume,

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J5790.60 --- J5730 --- J5630 --- J5511 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- works by individual poets -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- haiku, haikai --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- collections, series and anthologies -- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868) --- Haibun. --- Japan: Literature -- collections, series and anthologies -- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868). --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel.

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Japanese literature --- History and criticism --- Japan --- Description and travel --- In literature --- J5710 --- J5630 --- -Japan in literature --- Japan in literature --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- -Description and travel. --- Description and travel. --- In literature. --- Japanese literature - To 1600 - History and criticism --- Japan - Description and travel --- Japan - In literature

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Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists , for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) and the last is the explorer of Ezo (now Hokkaido) and government official Matsuura Takeshiro (1818-88). Such was the thirst for knowledge in the Edo period that some travel accounts (estimated to number over 2000) became best-sellers in their day, not least for their voyeuristic appeal, including those of Kaibara Ekiken and Tachibana Nankei, which are included in this volume. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has considerable interdisciplinary appeal. Of particular interest also is the author's discussion on the nature of this new travel writing and the self-centred observation and 'seeing' that developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, he calls the 'Japanese Enlightenment'.

J3360 --- J3400 --- J5630 --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Honshū and Japan in general --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japanese literature --- Travel in literature --- History and criticism --- Voyages and travels in literature