The poet-traveler may be familiar to lovers of Matsuo Basho, but for most, the Japanese way of travel writing diverts from well-trodden paths.
Travels with a Writing Brush, by Meredith McKinney.400 pagesPENGUIN CLASSICS, Nonfiction.
As Meredith McKinney, author of ¡°Travels with a Writing Brush,¡± explains to The Japan Times, ¡°the way they wrote about travel is so unlike how people in the West write now that it is quite a journey just to travel into their perspective.¡±
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