Keeling's Guide to Japan
{{short description|Japanese tourist guidebook}}
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Keeling's Guide to Japan was a tourist guidebook published in several editions during the 19th century by the Yokohama-based firm, A. Farsari & Co. {{cite book|author=Ellen P. Conant|title=Challenging Past And Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOJX4j533JoC&pg=PA132|year=2006|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2937-7|pages=132–}}
The full title is Keeling's Guide to Japan: Yokohama, Tokio, Hakone, Fujiyama, Kamakura, Yokoska, Kanozan, Narita, Nikko, Kioto, Osaka, Kobe, Etc. Etc.
The guidebook provided accurate and detailed maps and plans of Japanese cities, resort areas, and building complexes; descriptions of sites, services and suggested itineraries; numerous informative tables; and pages of advertisements (including one for the Farsari photographic studio). Given the degree of detail, the guide is useful even today as a resource for a better understanding of Japan in the second half of the 19th century.
References
- [http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/meiji/keelings_1890_4th_2d.shtml Baxley, George C. Baxley Stamps, Keeling's Guide to Japan]. Accessed 22 December 2006.
Category:19th-century non-fiction books
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