TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanasaka,Kiyonori
AU  - Cortazzi,Hugh
TI  - Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment 
SN  - 9781898823520
U1  - 952.00421 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - British
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - British-Foreign countries-History-19th century
KW  - Women travelers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women travelers-Great Britain-Biography
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - Japan
KW  - Travel and holiday
KW  - Travel / Asia / Japan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ainu
KW  - insight into japan
KW  - japnese culture
KW  - victorian women travellers
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION --; TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE --; PREFACE TO THE JAPANESE EDITION --; Maps of Isabella Bird’s Travels in Japan (Figs 1–3) --; Chapter 1 INTERPRETING BIRD’S TRAVELS AND UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN --; Chapter 2 ISABELLA BIRD – A LIFE OF TRAVEL --; Chapter 3 ASPECTS OF BIRD’S 1878 VISIT TO JAPAN --; Chapter 4 ACCESS AND SUPPORT IN JAPAN --; Chapter 5 THE LEGACY OF BIRD’S STAY IN JAPAN --; ENDNOTES --; POSTSCRIPT TO THE JAPANESE EDITION --; CHRONOLOGY: THE LIFE OF ISABELLA BIRD --; BIBLIOGRAPHIES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781898823520?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781898823520
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781898823520/original
ER  -