Village Japan: Everyday Life in a Rural Japanese Community - Softcover

Ritchie, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804821216 ISBN 13: 9780804821216

Verlag: Tuttle Publishing, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a traditional rural Japanese community. Underlying this portrait is the author's growing awareness that the aged inhabitants of Sora and the surrounding villages are the custodians of a fragile, barely surviving, way of life, one that is still informed by the cadences of the natural world, under the tutelage of its ancient gods. The book is a paean to a once noble culture all but effaced by Western industrial/technological materialism - the "cultural carcinogens" of the West - which Asian countries such as Japan have all too willingly embraced. Village Japan pays lyrical homage to a side of Japan rarely experienced or glimpsed by foreigners today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804821216
• ISBN 13: 9780804821216
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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