50：バードの旅行記　　　　Bird's Travels in Japan

当ホテルの所有する「UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN」です。
This is "UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN" owned by our hotel.

初版は１８８０（明治3）年。”Unbeaten Tracks in Japan：An Account of Travels in the Interior、Including Visits to the Aborigines of  Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise、2vols”（『日本の未踏の地―蝦夷の先住民と日光東照宮・伊勢神宮訪問を含む内地旅行の報告』）。８００ページを超す大作で２巻で発売されました。１８８５年に簡略版、１９００年に再編集版が出版されています。
金谷ホテルが所有している「日本奥地紀行」は２冊あり、この美しい装丁の本は写真ページも追加掲載された再編集版です。本には金谷一家の写真も紹介されています。

辛口な表現で日本の印象を書き綴ったイザベラバードですが、金谷カッテージイン滞在中の印象や、金谷家の人々についてはとても好意的に書いてくれています。

まだ青年だった善一郎は、精力的に世界を旅する女性をどのように感じ取ったのでしょうか。

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49：イザベラ・バード
イザベラ・バード

The first edition was published in 1880 (Meiji 3). "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise, 2 vols" (translated as "Untrodden Japan: A Report of Inland Travels, Including Visits to the Indigenous People of Ezo and Nikko Tosho-gu and Ise Grand Shrines"). This monumental work, exceeding 800 pages, was released in two volumes. A condensed edition was published in 1885, followed by a revised edition in 1900.
The Kanaya Hotel possesses two copies of "Unbeaten tracks in Japan" 
 These beautifully bound books are the revised edition with additional photo pages. The books also include photographs of the Kanaya family.
Although Isabella Bird wrote about her impressions of Japan with a rather critical tone in general, she wrote very favorably about her stay at the Kanaya Cottage Inn and about the Kanaya family.

How did Zenichiro, who was still a young man at the time, perceive this energetic woman traveling the world?