{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Far Lantern","title":"Beyond the Familiar Roads 1: A Stranger in a Changing Japan","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2192,"description":"Beyond the Familiar Roads: Isabella Bird's Journey Through Japan\nIn eighteen seventy-eight, Isabella Bird travelled through Japan with the young interpreter Itō, relying on the knowledge and hospitality of the people she met. From the port of Yokohama to northern roads, rivers and households, and onward to the southern places omitted from later editions of her book, this is a quiet journey through work, companionship and the limits of a visitor's understanding.\n\nEpisode 1 — A Stranger in a Changing Japan\nIn the Japan of 1878, an ambitious journey begins with a railway, official introductions, and an agreement with a young interpreter. Isabella Bird discovers how much of getting away depends on the people who help a stranger arrive.\n\nChapters\n\n\nSources & Further Reading\n\nBird, Isabella L., Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Project Gutenberg #2184, digitization (2000/2019) of John Murray 1911 edition.\nKanasaka Kiyonori, ‘Isabella Bird and Her Travels in Nineteenth-Century Japan’, Nippon.com, 5 May 2020.\nInternational Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Japan-related Western Books entry 470: Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, John Murray 1880, 2 vols, bibliographic entry and original detailed table of contents.\n\nKeep the Lantern Burning\nEnjoyed our time together? If you'd like to help keep these stories coming, you're warmly invited to support Night Passage Studios on Patreon. Our Keepers of the Lantern also get the occasional opportunity to help choose where our curiosity takes us next.\nhttps://www.patreon.com/nightpassagestudios\n\nMeticulously crafted from human imagination, curiosity, love, and attention to detail.\nA Night Passage Studios production, narrated by Laurence, our carefully crafted AI-generated voice.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JjU-s1zYiBdy-c7v0k9cD-2wJFybSmb4ueq2vkbVtYo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMGVk/NTk3NmJiYjcxYzY2/Y2UyMmNjNTNkYWQ5/NTI4Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}