A Voyage to Sado and Other Sketches

A poet walks Meiji Japan.

Nagatsuka Takashi, Masaoka Shiki's disciple and the author of Soil, made long journeys on foot with a lunch box, a rush mat and a notebook. This collection gathers sixteen of his sketches: a rainy walk down the Sado coast, a beautiful girl at an inn, a horse-dealer who loves Noh; the road over Mount Yahiko; Tsushima and Iki; a night on a salmon boat on the Tone; the harvest moon in Ibaraki; and affectionate pieces on Shiki and his friend Ito Sachio.

Complete and unabridged, with endnotes on places, customs and old units, and a translator's note.