Iza Bera Bird No Tabi "Nippon Okuchi Kiko" Wo Yomu (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] This book is based on the lecture notes of Isabella Bird's "Travels in the Interior of Japan" given at the Japan Tourism Culture Research Institute, of which Tsunekazu Miyamoto was the director. The author reads the lifestyles and customs of the people of the time from the casual descriptions seen through the eyes of a female English traveler in the Meiji period, and weaves together the vast amount of knowledge she gained from her own fieldwork with overwhelming persuasiveness.

本書は、宮本常一が所長をつとめた日本観光文化研究所で行った、イザベラ・バード著『日本奥地紀行』講読の講義録をもとに編まれた。明治期のイギリス人女性旅行家の目で見たなにげない記述の中から当時の人々の暮らしや慣習のありようを読み取り、関連する、自身のフィールドワークから得た膨大な知見を、圧倒的説得力を持って紡ぎ出してゆく。