Rambles in Japan
The Land of the Rising Sun

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram's final travel narrative, an 1895 account of a visit to the Christian community in Osaka.

Henry Baker Tristram (Author)

9781108045858, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2012

310 pages, 45 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822–1906), was an early supporter of Darwin's evolutionary theories - in his 1859 paper 'On the Ornithology of North Africa' - who became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and canon residentiary of Durham; he was also the Church Missionary Society's representative in the county for forty years. This 1895 volume, the last of many travel narratives he published, is an account of a sojourn in Japan, visiting his daughter Katherine, then headmistress of the Society's school for girls in Osaka. As well as describing the country's minority Christian communities, Tristram's highly readable narrative covers Japanese customs, industries, shrines and ornithology, with excursus on both native wild birds and local practices for taming them. It illustrates the author's ongoing interest in both religion and the natural sciences, as well as illuminating cultural contact between Britain and Japan in this formative period.

Preface
1. First impressions
2. Yokohama and Tokio
3. A visit to Nikko
4. The Hakone Lake
5. Nagoya
6. A second visit to Kioto
7. Osaka
8. Shikoku
9. The Island of Kiushiu
10. Aso San and the geysers of Yunotan.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]