Yuki and the one thousand carriers
By: written by Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by Yan Nascimbene.
Contributors: Nascimbene, Yan, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Tales of the world
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chelsea, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781585363520
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Haiku -- Fiction; Tōkaidō (Japan) -- History -- Fiction; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.