Travel Writings and Strange Stories: Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Travel Literature of the Edo Period

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  • 案内記と奇談集
  • 案内記と奇談集 : 江戸時代の紀行における写本と版本
  • アンナイキ ト キダンシュウ : エド ジダイ ノ キコウ ニ オケル シャホン ト ハンポン
  • ――江戸時代の紀行における写本と版本――

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Abstract

<p>Kaibara-Ekiken is a travel writer who wrote about his experiences of travelling in the form of guidebooks. His style became dominant in the travel literature of the Edo Period, but it was too excessively realistic in the descriptions of local places to be reproduced by the printing technology of the day. As a result, most travel writings of this kind were manuscripts, that is, hand-written. Then Tachibana-Nankei opened up a new possibility for the genre by adopting the form of strange stories that could be more easily printed. But there were some other writers who adhered to the traditional style of travel literature and kept on creating obscure yet excellent works as Ozu-Hisatari did. Thus the public could have a wider choice of travel writings in the Edo Period than we do now.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 63 (10), 12-22, 2014-10-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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