- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd; First Edition edition (1 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906011087
- ISBN-13: 978-1906011086
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 587,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho: the most recent addition of Eland's through writers' eyes series brings together a chorus of voices from Japan and across the globe. Detailed introductions stemming from Elizabeth Ingram's own experiences as a traveller, (later a resident) and journalist in Japan, develop a lively and intimate portrait of towns and provinces, making it an ideal companion. A library in the palm of your hand: extracts of prose, poetry and novels from a rich variety of writers, including Jan Morris, Nicolas Bouvier, Oswald Wynd, Peter Popham, Basho, Yasunari Kawabata, Alan Booth, Futabei Shimei, Angela Carter, Joao Rodrigues and Mary Crawford Fraser. It is a source book for those visiting Japan for the first time and for expatriates. One must never forget that for all the talk of the new Asia, the Japanese economy is still bigger than that of India and China combined.
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This is a book you can dip into - for a curious vignette or a few lines of poetry. Or you can sit down, with a good map handy, and work your way around Japan in 17 chapters. The range of writers included here is astonishing - over 80 authors, from the 6th century to the present day, both Japanese and non-Japanese. As you read, one impression is always tempered by another. The chapter on Yokohama, for example, contains three extracts: first, an account of foreign consuls and narrow ex-pat mentality, written by a nineteenth-century British diplomat, then two evocative paragraphs by Junichiro Tanizaki describing a street in Yokohama (`Only an hour by streetcar from Tokyo, yet you felt as if you had arrived at some far-off place'), and finally an extract from a 1992 novel of Korean-Japanese and Filipino life, described by the editor as a `rare, luminous account' of a community which `props up the Japanese economic miracle'. Comments like these lead on to further reading - there's a bibliography for each chapter as well as short intriguing biographies of all the authors.
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