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Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road

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By Lucian Swift Kirtland
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A pair of Western travelers walk Japan’s high roads and record episodic adventures, encounters, and observations of everyday life. Their chronicle combines practical travel detail, descriptions of inns, temples, rice plains, coastal stretches, and festivals with reflective notes on samurai ideals, local customs, and personalities met en route. Stories of searches for acquaintances, curious incidents at guesthouses, and mountain and seaside passages are woven with sketches of artisans, antiquities, language notes, and occasional humor, yielding a travelogue that balances anecdote, cultural explanation, and evocative landscape description.

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Title: Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road

Author: Lucian Swift Kirtland

Release date: October 20, 2016 [eBook #53327]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Notes:

There is a glossary of Japanese words at the end of the text. The first use of each of these words in the text is linked to the corresponding glossary entry

Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.

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