Village Japan [[electronic resource] ] : everyday life in a rural Japanese community / / Malcolm Ritchie
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| Autore: |
Ritchie Malcolm
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| Titolo: |
Village Japan [[electronic resource] ] : everyday life in a rural Japanese community / / Malcolm Ritchie
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| Pubblicazione: | Rutland, Vt., : Charles E. Tuttle, 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 309.15219 |
| 952.04092 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Villages - Japan |
| Soggetto geografico: | Japan Rural conditions Case studies |
| Noto Peninsula (Japan) Social life and customs 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Village Japan; Afterword; Glossary |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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 sur |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Village Japan |
| ISBN: | 1-283-30152-0 |
| 9786613301529 | |
| 1-4629-0205-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457752003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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