Liquid Landscapes : Tosa Nikki’s Pioneering Poetic Contribution to Travelogue Prose

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  • 流体の風景 : トラベログの散文体への『土佐日記』の貢献

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This article seeks to illuminate the innovative contributions of Tosa nikki to the representation of travel in Heian Japan through a subtle blending of fact with fiction that employed poetic structures to mark space, time, and affect in its prose representation of the places segmenting its narrative. The diary’s placement in a liquid landscape far removed from the capital opens up a distinctive discursive space in which even the most banal sentences are deployed to great effect. Such aspects of the diary enable a greater appreciation of its longstanding significance as a new form of travel narrative, a dimension often overlooked in contemporary Anglophone accounts that focus on its connections to script and gender.

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