Author: ITSUE, TAKAMURE
Title: The 1918 Shikoku pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue
Description: Bowen Island, BC, Bowen Publishing, 2010; 8vo (22.5cm), 268pp., glossary, bibliography, paper. Good copy. Rare! ¶ "In 1918 Takamure Itsue, 24 years old, set off alone to walk the 1400 kilometre pilgrimage path around Shikoku, a route visiting 88 Buddhist temples. [...] In later years Takamure Itsue became well known in Japan as a poet, scholar, intellectuel, historian, anarchist and feminist." (blurb)

Keywords: Japan travelling women