02339nam 2200577Ia 450 991078163160332120230207231418.01-283-30152-097866133015291-4629-0205-7(CKB)2550000000049875(EBL)784138(OCoLC)756484545(SSID)ssj0000642598(PQKBManifestationID)12216933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000642598(PQKBWorkID)10648093(PQKB)11166274(MiAaPQ)EBC784138(Au-PeEL)EBL784138(CaPaEBR)ebr10503097(CaONFJC)MIL330152(EXLCZ)99255000000004987519990505d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVillage Japan[electronic resource] everyday life in a rural Japanese community /Malcolm Ritchie1st ed.Rutland, Vt. Charles E. Tuttle19991 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8048-2121-6 Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Village Japan; Afterword; GlossaryIn this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a traditional rural Japanese community. Underlying this portrait is the author's growing awareness that the aged inhabitants of Sora and the surrounding villages are the custodians of a fragile, barely surVillagesJapanCase studiesJapanRural conditionsCase studiesNoto Peninsula (Japan)Social life and customs20th centuryVillages309.15219952.04092Ritchie Malcolm1582765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781631603321Village Japan3865384UNINA