The Japanese Chronicles
Published on 13. June 2019
224 pages
978-1-78060-165-6 (ISBN)
Description
In The Japanese Chronicles, Swiss travel writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier shares his intimate experience of Japan. Based on three decades of travel throughout the islands, his reports, recollections, and reflections take the reader beyond the commonplace and into an unexpected landscape.
Whether describing village festivals or the suburbs of Kyoto, retelling Japanese myth and history, composing poems, reflecting on Noh performances, or sketching memorable portraits in a few deft words, Bouvier takes the reader with him into the heart of his experience of the land of the rising sun.
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Nicolas Bouvier was born in 1929 near Geneva. Although he was an exquisite traveller and the greatest Swiss travel writer of the 20th century, he was not a restless character, and died in Geneva in 1998. In 1953 he set off to meet a friend in Yugoslavia without waiting for the result of his degree. The account of the journey they made to Pakistan was published some eight years later, as The Way of the World. Bouvier continued, through India and Ceylon and thence to Japan. The Japanese Chronicles were published in their final version in 1975.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- The Grey Notebook
- PART ONE: The Magic Lantern
- Year Zero
- The Island of the Wa
- 'My Law will spread toward the East .' (The word of Buddha)
- The Dream of an Autumn Night
- The Grey Notebook
- Genoa, the year 1298
- The Vatican
- The Grey Notebook
- Pax Tokugawa
- Le Temps Retrouvé, 1854-1944
- Yuji Speaks, or a Lesson in 'Nothing'
- Washington, 1944-1945
- PART TWO: The Year of the Monkey, 1956
- 'Passepartout'
- Around Araki-Cho
- The Foot of the Wall
- PART THREE: The Pavilion of the Auspicious Cloud, 1964
- The Temple of Great Virtue
- The Grey Notebook
- PART FOUR: The Village of the Moon, 1965
- Tsukimura
- PART FIVE: The Island Without Memory, 1965-1970
- The Route to the North Sea
- The Grey Notebook
- The Ainu
- The Cape of Erimo
- At the Abashiri Museum
- A Depression Coming from the Kurils
- Wakanai
- The Grey Notebook
- The Grey Notebook
- Goodbye
- Translator's acknowledgment to the original Mercury House edition
- About the Author
- Copyright
