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Biographie. --- Edo-Zeit. --- Historische Persönlichkeit. --- Jinmei jiten-Nihon --- Jinmei jiten-Nihon. --- 880-08. --- 1600-1868. --- Geschichte 1603-1867. --- Japan --- Japan. --- Japan. --- History --- Japanese

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"In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page of the diary offered a precious opportunity to create personal hierarchies defined less by gender and more by culture and refinement. After the mid-eighteenth century - which saw the popularization of culture and the rise of commercial printing - textbooks, guides, comical fiction, and woodblock prints allowed not a few commoners to acquaint themselves with the historical, lyrical, or artistic pedigree of Japan's famous sites. By identifying themselves with famous literary and historical icons of the past, some among these erudite commoners saw an opportunity to rewrite their lives and re-create their identities in the pages of their travel diaries."--Jacket.

Travelers' writings, Japanese --- J5630 --- J3400 --- Japanese literature --- Japanese travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Honshū and Japan in general --- Japan --- Description and travel. --- Social conditions --- Description and travel --- History and criticism --- Edo-Zeit. --- Reisebericht. --- Resor --- Social conditions. --- Travel. --- Travelers' writings, Japanese. --- Historia --- 1600-1868. --- Geschichte 1603-1867. --- Japan. --- Reseskildringar. --- Sociala förhållanden

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Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits; commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, frequently ignoring the laws designed to control their mobility. In this study, Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that this system of travel regulations prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a "culture of movement" in Japan developed in the Tokugawa era. Using a combination of governmental documentation and travel literature, diaries, and wood-block prints, Vaporis examines the development of travel as recreation; he discusses the impact of pilgrimage and the institutionalization of alms-giving on the freedom of movement commoners enjoyed. By the end of the Tokugawa era, the popular nature of travel and a sophisticated system of roads were well established: Vaporis explores the reluctance of the bakufu to enforce its travel laws, and in doing so, beautifully evokes the character of the journey through Tokugawa Japan.

J4470 --- J4301 --- J4300.60 --- J4810.60 --- Transportation --- -Transportation and state --- -Travel restrictions --- -Aliens --- Areas closed to aliens --- Areas restricted to aliens --- Off-limits areas --- Restricted to aliens --- Travel restrictions --- International travel regulations --- Travel --- State and transportation --- Transportation policy --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Japan: Economy and industry -- transportation and infrastructure --- Japan: Economy and industry -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- History --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- Japan --- Description and travel --- -History. --- Transportation and state --- Aliens --- Description and travel. --- Transportation. --- Transportation and state. --- Travel. --- Travel restrictions. --- Reizen. --- Vergunningen. --- Transports et communications --- Politique des transports --- Restrictions à la liberté de circulation --- Voyageurs --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages --- Transport. --- Geschichte. --- Verkehrspolitik. --- Edo-Zeit. --- Reise. --- Histoire --- Geschichte 1603-1867. --- Japan. --- Areas closed to noncitizens --- Areas restricted to noncitizens --- Noncitizens --- Restricted to noncitizens --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- History. --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国