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Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912

Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912

Fessler, Susanna

Paperback

Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0472038303
ISBN13: 9780472038305
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: Jan 19 2021
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of the West and changing artistic sensibilities in the long-standing Japanese literary tradition of travel writing (kikoōbungaku). This book shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one that had a solid foundation in traditional Japanese kikōbungaku yet also displayed influence from the West.Musashino in Tuscany specifically examines the poetic imagery and allusion in these travelogues and reveals that when Japanese traveled to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, the images they wrote about tended to be associated not with places initially discovered by the Japanese traveler but with places that already existed in Western fame and lore. And unlike imagery from Japanese traveling in Japan, which was predominantly nature based, Japanese overseas travel imagery was often associated with the manmade world.

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