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Article: Travel and tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period: Forming Japanese Geographic Identity.(DEBUT PANEL PAPERS)(Essay)
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- Asian Theatre Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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There are three sections in "Travel and Tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period: Forming Japanese Geographic Identity." The first is about travel in the Edo period (1600-1868). In this section travel and the important role it played informing the foundations of Japanese identity are presented. The second section is about tabibanashi (travel stories), a subgenre of rakup, a form of comic storytelling that was especially popular in early modern Japan. The author's contention is that geographical and cultural information presented in tabibanashi served to educate the common people about travel and social values of the world in which they lived. In the third section a brief ...
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