Unbeaten Tracks in JapanCosimo, Inc., 01/12/2005 - 360 páginas The principal apartments in all Japanese houses are at the back, looking out on these miniature landscapes... A lake, a rockwork, a bridge, a stone lantern, and a deformed pine, are indispensable; but whenever means and circumstances admit of it, quaintnesses of all kinds are introduced. Small pavilions, retreats for tea-making, reading, sleeping in quiet and coolness, fishing under cover, and drinking sak... ¬-from "Letter XVI" Taking the form of letters to a beloved sister, this chronicle of an 1878 trip to Japan is a classic Victorian travel journal. Isabella Bird was a woman who, she readily admits herself, was ill-suited to the middle-class British life she was brought up in and much more at home in the "savage wilds." Intrigued by the "real" Japan, the outlying areas that were then yet untouched by galloping Westernization, she spent time in the remote villages of the Ainu, the ancient peoples of Japan, and touring much of the backcountry of that exotic land. Charming and insightful, this lovely book will please readers of travel adventure. British writer ISABELLA LUCY BIRD (1831-1904) traveled extensively around the globe. She is also the author of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), and Among the Tibetans (1894). ~ ~ ~ |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including ... Isabella Lucy Bird Visualização integral - 1888 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aino Aomori asked bamboo bark beautiful Biratori blue bows bridge Buddhist carried chief clothes colour coolies covered crêpe crossed crowd cryptomeria dark deep dress English European eyes face feet long foreign forest front fusuma girls gold grey hair hakama Hakodaté handsome head height hills horses house-master houses I. L. B. LETTER Ikarigaseki inches Japan Japanese journey KAMINOYAMA kimono Kuroishi kuruma lacquer lady lanterns look mago mats miles morning mosquitoes mountains nearly never night Niigata Nikkô pack-horses paper pass poles rain rice river road roofs round saddle saké samisen sampans savage seen Shinondi Shintô Shiraôi shrines side silk smoke steep stone straw stream street tea-houses temple Tôkiyô Tomakomai took torrent town travelling trees Tsugaru Strait village volcano walk woman women wood wooden yadoya Yamagata Yedo Yezo Yokohama
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Página 10 - The kuruma, or jin-ri-ki-sha,2 consists of a light perambulator body, an adjustable hood of oiled paper, a velvet or cloth lining and cushion, a well for parcels under the seat, two high slim wheels, and a pair of shafts connected by a bar at the ends. The body is usually lacquered and decorated according to its owner's taste. Some show little except polished brass, others are altogether inlaid with shells known as Venus's ear, and others are gaudily painted with contorted dragons, or groups of peonies,...
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Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan James W. White Visualização de excertos - 1995 |