CHAPTER 2 Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Traditions of East Asian Travel vii
4. CHAPTER 1 Su Shi and Mount Lu 1
5. CHAPTER 2 Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan 20
6. CHAPTER 3 Women’s Travel Narratives in Early Modern Japan: Genre Imperatives, Gender Consciousness and Status Questioning 44
7. CHAPTER 4 Discovered Other, Recovered Self: Layers of Representation in an Early Travelogue on the West (Xihai jiyou cao, 1849) 70
8. CHAPTER 5 The West as a ‘Kingdom of Women’: Woman and Occidentalism in Wang Tao’s Tales of Travel 97
9. CHAPTER 6 A Wartime Cinematic Recreation of the Journey Linking China and Japan in the Modern Era 125
10. CHAPTER 7 ‘Would That I Were Marco Polo’: The Travel Writing of Shan Shili (1856–1943) 144
11. CHAPTER 8 A Letter from the Past and the Present: Tokutomi Roka’s ‘Autumn in Ryōmō ’ 167
12. Index 184