Japan: Through Writers' Eyes [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1906011087 ISBN 13: 9781906011086

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2009

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Like a traveller in search of enlightenment, Elizabeth Ingrams has tracked down a wealth of writers who have turned their attention to these enigmatic islands. From the earliest European reports of Japan's sophisticated court culture, to eyewitness accounts of the explosion of the atom bomb at Nagasaki and of street life in present-day Ginza, she builds a complex picture of the islands and their people, their refined culture and religious beliefs as well as their changing lifestyles.
Exploring the country topographically, she begins in Tokyo, returning to the main island and its once inaccessible northern extremity via the distant islands of Okinawa and Hokkaido. Between these covers lie Pico Iyer's account of the rigours of training to become a Zen Buddhist monk in Kyoto, Nicolas Bouvier's reminiscences of living in a down-at-heel district of Tokyo in the 1950s, extracts from Basho's masterly Narrow Road to the Deep North and from Yukio Mishima's meditation on Japan, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion.

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• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906011087
• ISBN 13: 9781906011086
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Ingrams Elizabeth