Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries - Paperbackby Donald Keene (Author) Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents here a collection of premodern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years. Ranging from objective to confessional, selections such as "The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu" and "Diaries of Seventeenth Century Courtiers"