19th Century Travel Guide to Hawaii

[Travel Guide for Hawaii] Hawai kiko

Kaguhi, Tenko

Notes: One of the earliest guides ("tobei annai") for Japanese immigrants to any part of the present-day United States. This is the second printing of Hawai kiko, issued just a few months after the first, which suggests the popularity of the genre.

According to Yasuo Sakata (On a Collision Course), which offers perhaps the best overview of the tobai annai genre: "As manuals for travelers and emigrants, they focused on the actual specifics of the destination and the experiences of travelers. The authors explained in detail everything from the reasons for emigration to North America and its expected benefits and experiences, to every possible situational scenario... Among the extremely limited surviving documents, these tobai annai provide valuable detailed descriptions that no other materials mention" (p. 41).

58 pages. 4-3/4 by 6-7/8 inches.

OCLC: 672477725 (National Diet Library, perhaps for this second edition).

Edition + Condition: Spine flaking, some worming to the cover and a few pages, partially affecting a few characters.

Publication: Kyoto: Fujiho Gosha, 1890 (Meiji 23).

Item No: #361076

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