Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

Meredith McKinney

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 pre...