Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (Bilingual Nippon Sosho)

IBC Publishing
Softcover
Pages: 224
Size: 11,3 x 19
Language: Japanese/English
 
What was Japan like at the time of the Meiji Restoration, as described by a British woman with a keen eye for observation and a realistic sense of expression?
Isabella Bird, a British woman traveler, wrote "Travels in the Interior of Japan" from June to September 1878, traveling from Tokyo to Hokkaido. The book is a valuable source of information on the situation in pre-modern Japan, with detailed descriptions of housing, clothing, customs, and nature in rural Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

What Japanese people have lost in their supposed affluence can be seen here and now, and what was taught by foreigners 140 years ago may be useful for the revitalization of Japan's rural areas today!