By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great
numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote
formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of
the West and changing artistic sensibilities in the long-standing
Japanese literary tradition of travel writing (kikoobungaku). This
book shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to
create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one that had a
solid foundation in traditional Japanese kikobungaku yet also
displayed influence from the West. Musashino in Tuscany
specifically examines the poetic imagery and allusion in these
travelogues and reveals that when Japanese traveled to the West in
the mid-nineteenth century, the images they wrote about tended to
be associated not with places initially discovered by the Japanese
traveler but with places that already existed in Western fame and
lore. And unlike imagery from Japanese traveling in Japan, which
was predominantly nature based, Japanese overseas travel imagery
was often associated with the manmade world.
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