A Reader in EDO Period Travel

by Herbert E. Plutschow

Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists, for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1901903230
• ISBN13: 9781901903232
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.0"