A Walk in Japan: The 1910 Travelogue of Bernhard Kellermann (English Edition)

"This fascinating travelogue provides rare glimpses of the Japan we all wish we'd had the privilege of experiencing, back in the late Meiji Era. Bernhard Kellermann, a German novelist and poet, arrives in the Japan Sea port of Tsuruga in the spring of 1910, after riding the Trans-Siberian (inaugurated just six years previously) to Vladivostok. He then travels without haste through major cities, smaller towns, countryside, and coastal regions, observing with an open mind and intense delight every aspect of Japanese daily life, marveling at times how it seems he has stepped into a Hiroshige woodblock print." (From Kyoto Journal book review of Ken Rodgers / February 2017)