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The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue: An English translation of Musume Junreiki
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A young woman of 24 set off alone in 1918 to walk the 1400 kilometre pilgrimage route around the island of Shikoku. Her dream of a solitary journey ended when an old man of 73 met early on her journey insisted that he accompany her as servant and protector because he believed that she was an attendant of Kannon Bosatsu. This book is her account of their extraordinary exper
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Paperback, 274 pages
Published
March 13th 2010
by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Fine translation of a Japanese classic
My first reaction upon reading Tennant's translation of Musume Junreiki, The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue was one of surprise. Here is something of quality - how was it that no one had translated this work into English before? Thirty years on the shelf while hundreds of thousands of people made their own circuits around Shikoku, kept their own journals, wrote their own books. Some interesting accounts to be sure, but few more interesting than th ...more
My first reaction upon reading Tennant's translation of Musume Junreiki, The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue was one of surprise. Here is something of quality - how was it that no one had translated this work into English before? Thirty years on the shelf while hundreds of thousands of people made their own circuits around Shikoku, kept their own journals, wrote their own books. Some interesting accounts to be sure, but few more interesting than th ...more

Review originally posted 30 November 2015 on Falling Letters.
The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue resonated with me in new way. I completed the pilgrimage a few months ago, the same age as Takamure, nearly 100 years after her (though I did it in pieces via a mixture of walking and driving). For these reasons I found Takamure highly relatable. I read the bulk of this book just two months after completing the pilgrimage, but I had already begun to feel nostalgic for the experience. This b ...more
The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue resonated with me in new way. I completed the pilgrimage a few months ago, the same age as Takamure, nearly 100 years after her (though I did it in pieces via a mixture of walking and driving). For these reasons I found Takamure highly relatable. I read the bulk of this book just two months after completing the pilgrimage, but I had already begun to feel nostalgic for the experience. This b ...more

Takamurės, vienos pirmųjų feminisčių Japonijoje, prieš šimtą metų rašytą dienoraštį-straipsnius apie Šikoku 88 šventyklų kelią perskaičiau pats eidamas juo šį pavasarį. Nustebino keli dalykai: įvairūs sutapimai (pvz, su šiandienos įvykiais, nors apie 1918 m. gripo epidemiją beveik nieko neužsiminta, tik tai, kad kelionės pabaigoje ir pati susirgo) bei emocinis-intelektinis jos vidinio pasaulio panašumas su „Toliau nei vandenynas“ protagonisto. Priešpaskutinis straipsnis baigiasi šiais žodžiais:
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Interesting as a historical and anthropological document, the author is delightful and exasperating, too young for her 24 years, incredibly emotional, whose sense of empathy only slowly develops (I’m not sure her sense of irony really ever does, her whit notwithstanding). The translation is adequate, not inspired, and the edition could have used some serious copy-editing.

Although this is an account written in the style of newspaper articles (105), this is a very readable account of a young woman's journey on the Shikoku Pilgrimage in 1918. I have read much about the Pilgrimage and plan on doing it myself in a few years time - but this account is something more than a travel guide or advice for those planning the pilgrimage. In fact it is more about a young woman who was to become a famous writer and poet - feminist and romantic, and the early events and thought
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Itsue Takamure's story of her Shikoku Pilgrimage is must reading for anyone who is planning to do the pilgrimage today because it gives some useful historical context, and Shikoku is probably the least well known of Japan's main four islands. But as many such stories are, this one was mostly about herself, and often not in a way that explained very much. For example, nearly everyone she met seemed shocked that such a young woman had been permitted by her family to travel alone, and indeed, I tho
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Takamure's account of her trip around the 88-temple Pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan is a fun, poetic glimpse into an interesting and rapidly changing period of Japanese history. Here, budding Post-Meiji values (particularly her pioneering feminism) are clearly in tension with the older rustic values of Shikoku's pilgrimage tradition.
This travelogue is a collection of short newspaper articles, and at only 200 pages covering nearly 6 months of walking, the narrative occasionally feels stilted and in ...more
This travelogue is a collection of short newspaper articles, and at only 200 pages covering nearly 6 months of walking, the narrative occasionally feels stilted and in ...more
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