num_pages: 208
description: Given the choice, no one ever went to Sado, although the island off the west coast of Japan has considerable natural beauty. Instead, for a thousand years, Sada was a place of isolation and exile for the deposed, disgraced, or just plain distrusted--ex-emperors, aristocrats, poets, priests, and convicted criminals alike. But one year, one May, a British writer set out to circumambulate the island. The trek took him eight days, during which time he explored the truth about Sado's notorious gold mine, tracked down a vanishing badger cult, and visited the headquarters of the famed taiko Demon Drummers. This armchair-travel book describes what Angus Waycott saw and did on Sado and paints a vivid picture of one of Japan's most intriguing backwaters, now emerging from a long exile of its own.
language: English
title: Sado: Japan's Island in Exile
titlecomplete: Sado: Japan's Island in Exile
genres: Travel, Japan
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Stone Bridge Press