Abstract
The writings by Victorian women travellers make an important contribution to our understand ing of the historical, cultural and political developments in Meiji Japan. The view of nineteenth-century Japan is a personal one, where the reader is drawn in to share the author's perception of Japan through her experiences and through the minutiae of the daily lives of both the writer and her subjects. By studying these discourses, we find a Japan which is not represented in either the more pedagogical, paternalistic writings by men, or through the subjective demands of official commentaries and formal histories.
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