Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney (Editor / Translator)

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney (Editor / Translator)A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief moment, and I cannot hope that we will meet again'Roaming over mountains and along perilous shores, this anthology illuminates over a thousand years of Japanese travel writing. It takes in songs, diaries, tales and poetry, and ranges from famous works including The Pillow Book and the works of Basho to

At twenty-one

“My father

another fall in the Himalayas crippled and almost broke him

this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose

Written in the nineteenth century

But their mission becomes infinitely more complicated when they run afoul of a band of robbers

The answer lies in the Tone

animated by the hope of a different world

Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern

which reads like a fairy tale

The film stars David Thewlis (from Mike Leigh's Naked)

aristocrats and murderers