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In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections.

長野県最北部の谷あい、長野市鬼無里に鎮座する加茂神社。 都より流されて来た「鬼女紅葉」が、京を偲んで建てたとされる。 彼女は能「紅葉狩」に登場する美女で、鬼無里の隣、戸隠の岩屋に住んだという。 伝説では、盗賊達の首領となり、朝廷の将軍と妖術をもって戦い、討たれたといい、 悪の親玉、まさに鬼女のなのだが、鬼無里には全く違った伝承がある。 ●都から流されて来た紅葉は、京の文化を鬼無里へもたらした ●呪術に長けた紅葉は、その力で村人の病気を治した ●紅葉が都を偲んで付けた、京にちなんだ地名が、多数残っている ●紅葉が住んだ家は「内裏屋敷」と呼ばれ、今に至るまで慕われて来た 鬼無里には、鬼女紅葉伝説以外にも、不思議な伝説が数多く伝わる。 その中でも出色なのが「遷都伝説」。日本書紀に、天武天皇の信濃遷都計画が載るが、 それを伝える地名が数多く残り、その悉くが鬼女紅葉由来の地名と重複する。 さらに、県内近隣には、紅葉という名の山姥が子の金太郎を育てたという山も。 山姥とは、山に住む女性シャーマンとの指摘もある。鬼女紅葉とは、何者なのか。 ○天鈿女命や卑弥呼、土蜘蛛など、古代日本の宗教では神懸る巫女が重要視された ○女性シャーマンの系譜は、漂泊の巫女、芸能者、遊女へと受け継がれた ○呪術を駆使し漂泊の芸能者でもある紅葉は女性シャーマンそのもの ...

福岡市西部、博多湾と玄界灘を仕切る砂州・海の中道の先に、志賀島がある。ここは、漢の皇帝より奴の国王に贈られた金印が発見された地として、名高い。この島は、金印が発見されるにふさわしく、古代には海洋氏族・阿曇氏の根拠地であり、彼らが崇める海の神を祀った志賀海神社がある。顔に貝殻が付着して醜かったという「安曇磯良」の不思議な伝説もある。阿曇氏は、古代のある時期、志賀島から全国各地へ展開する。彼らが定着した土地には、氏族の名が付けられた。滋賀県の安曇川や、愛知県の渥美半島、福島県の安積原野などがそうだという。ここに見えるように、海洋氏族でありながら内陸にも展開した。その典型が、長野県の安曇野である。安曇野の穂高神社は、山に囲まれた信州にあって海神を祀り、船形の山車「御船」をぶつけ合う「御船祭」など、海洋氏族の名残を留める神事もある。一方、古代の安曇野には、坂上田村麻呂に討たれた「まつろわぬ者」八面大王の伝説もある。朝廷に食を奉る氏族でありながら、どこか異形の影がつきまとう、全国展開した海洋氏族・阿曇氏の足跡を追う。語り:高橋御山人 聞き役:盛池雄峰

En esta sección se presentan elementos de la cultura tradicional japonesa tales como el "Sumo", el "Kabuki" y el "Zazen", con la finalidad de que el visitante conozca su historia y sepa cómo disfrutarlos mejor.

Ten years after the walk across Central Asia and Afghanistan that he memorialized in The Places in Between, Rory Stewart set out on a new journey, traversing a thousand miles between England and Scotland. Stewart was raised along the border of the two countries, the frontier taking on poignant significance in his understanding of what it means to be both Scottish and English, of his relationship with his father, who's lived on this land his whole life, and of his ties to the rich history and culture of the region.

With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books, V.S. Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam–in a book that combines the fascinations of great travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original and idiosyncratic political mind.

During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea. Applying methods used by primitive peoples and early explorers, the author reveals how to determine location, study wind directions and reflections in the sky, even how to use the senses of smell and hearing to find your way in the wilderness, in a desert, in snow-covered areas, and on the ocean.

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the...

From morpho butterflies in the rain forest to the blue jay flitting past your window, vanishingly few living things are blue. Yet this hard-to-spot accent color in our surroundings looms large in our affections. Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. His quest to find and understand his favorite color and its hallowed place in our culture takes him to a gene-splicing laboratory in Japan, a volcanic lake in Oregon, and to Brandenburg, Germany - home of the last Spix's macaws.

新潟県北東、佐渡よりもさらに北の海に浮かぶ粟島。一島一村の粟島浦村に帰属し、独自に発電所も所有する。佐渡と同じく、西海岸は日本海の荒波に削られ、断崖絶壁の奇観を成し、初夏には岩ゆりで彩られる。歴史も古く、縄文遺跡が残り、万葉集には粟島を詠んだ歌が残っている。東海岸、島の中心集落・内浦の八所神社は、島の総鎮守と言えるが、その祭神は古代から天皇の守護神として宮中で祀られて来た「宮中八神」であり、歴史の古さの窺わせる。伝承によれば、最初に島に住んでいたのは蝦夷であった。9世紀初め頃には北部九州から松浦家がやって来て、内浦にて共存したという。やがて越前より本保家が渡って来ると、蝦夷と松浦家は西海岸に追いやられた。その後蝦夷は滅亡する。それから様々な変遷を経て、政治面を担う本保家、財政面を担う脇川家、学問面を担う神丸家と、各氏族が役割分担して島を統治して来た。このように、一つの島にあって、様々な氏族があるいは争い、あるいは共存して興亡する様は、一国の歴史を見るようでもある。本土と隔絶した自然が、こうした独自の歴史と文化を育んで来たのだ。常識をはるかに超越したゆるキャラ「泡姫ちゃん」など、現代の粟島にも、その独自性、独立性を見る事が出来る。離島というメインストリームに「まつろわぬ」存在を考察する。

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.

Learn about the history of Buckingham Palace in London with iMinds Travel's insightful audio-knowledge series. Walking through Buckingham Gate is like stepping into an entirely different London. This is a London far removed from the hustle and bustle of the long and crowded public streets, such as Piccadilly and Regent. Hemmed in by large parks, the area surrounding this world famous palace seems almost unnaturally hushed....

Learn about the history of the National Gallery in London with iMinds Travel's insightful audio knowledge series. The National Gallery of England, situated in the capital city of London, houses an impressive 2,300 works of art. With such an expansive collection, many connoisseurs of fine art rank it as second only to the Louvre in terms of the world’s great galleries.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times Back in...

歴史文化コーディネーターの赤瓦ちょーびんが担当する沖縄の集落をステージに見立てた地域発信番組。

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. In Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World, storyteller Anu Taranath unpacks our baggage about who we are, where we come from, and how much we have. She takes us on a journey through personal travel stories and thought-provoking questions, providing us with tools to grapple with our discomfort and navigate differences with accountability and connection.

Step into the rugged Rockies with Osborne Russell! Journey nine years through his trapper's journal, facing blizzards, bears, and bison while navigating life off the grid. Witness the clash of trappers and tribes, and glimpse the untamed beauty of a changing wilderness. This historical adventure unfolds in Russell's own words, offering a unique perspective on the early American West.