This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan which is missing w

Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centuries, but ethnic Japanese, or Wajin, began comi

Excerpt from A Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate, in 1859 1860: With an Account of Japan Generally Since this work was written, many and grave events have occu