An Unfamiliar Place - Poetry, Power, and the Travel Diary in Medieval Japan

In mid-14th-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second Ashikaga shogun and general Yoshiakira (1330–1367), the Buddhist lay priest S?ky? (ca. 1350), and the statesman Nij? Yoshimoto (1320–1388). All three s