Travels with a Writing Brush

Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

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Travels with a Writing Brush (2019, Penguin Books, Limited)

352 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 2019 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-241-31087-8
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An excellent survey of Japanese travel literature. I found if I tried to read it all in one go, it got a little dry. So I put it down for awhile then came back to it. This worked pretty well as the writing felt fresh again upon each return.
As someone who is fascinated by haiku, it was fantastic to trace the roots of this poetic form through history.