Word: shibusewa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn Europe refreshing in their own right. Haruko Ichikawa is a granddaughter of the late Viscount Shibusewa, one of the first Japanese to travel abroad (1866). Her diary covers a year's travel with her husband, English department head of Tokio's Imperial University, on an Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship...
| 1 |