Tag: Travels with a writing brush

  • Grass for pillow: early Japanese travel poems

    Grass for pillow: early Japanese travel poems

    Last year Penguin published a selection of classical Japanese writings about travel.  Travels with a writing brush, edited by the Australian translator Meredith McKinney, didn’t receive much attention at the time, but it’s a wonderful and wonderfully varied introduction to poetry and prose written in Japan between the seventh and seventeenth centuries.  For anyone who’s…