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An Unfamiliar Place
Poetry, Power, and the Travel Diary in Medieval Japan
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Kendra Strand
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English
Published/Copyright:
2026
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Strand Kendra :
Kendra Strand is associate professor of premodern Japanese literature and visual culture at the University of Iowa.Kendra Strand is associate professor of premodern Japanese literature and visual culture at the University of Iowa.
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Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia:
Through a careful explication of the ‘geographical imagination’ and an analysis of three literary travel diaries from the Muromachi period, Kendra Strand guides readers along a path to understanding how travel literature navigates spatial and temporal realms as a mode of writing that places the traveller-poet in conversation with the past while offering powerful commentary on the poet’s present.
Through a careful explication of the ‘geographical imagination’ and an analysis of three literary travel diaries from the Muromachi period, Kendra Strand guides readers along a path to understanding how travel literature navigates spatial and temporal realms as a mode of writing that places the traveller-poet in conversation with the past while offering powerful commentary on the poet’s present.
Charo D'Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Kendra Strand’s study is an original piece of scholarship that poses provocative questions about several important but under-studied Japanese medieval texts in a fascinating historical era. It’s an exciting work for its approach, subject matter, and the period covered, and the field will be all the better for it.
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Reflections on an Inherited Worldview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Contextualizing Northern Court Travel Memoirs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Reconciling Buddhism, Poetry, and Experience in Sōky ū’s Souvenirs for the Capital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Constructions of Space in Nijō Yoshimoto’s Solace of Words at Ojima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Constructions of Social Identity in Nijō Yoshimoto’s Solace of Words at Ojima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Vision and Historiography in Ashikaga Yoshiakira’s Pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Utamakura and the Travel Mode Through the Lens of Matsuo Bashō’s Narrow Road to Oku Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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November 5, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9798880702107
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288
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9798880702107
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