Xu Xiá Kè Yóu Jì (English: Travelogue of Xu Xiá)

Japanese: 徐霞客遊記 - じょかきゃくゆうき（英語表記）Xú xiá kè yóu jì

This book was written by Xu Hongzu (1586-1641) of the late Ming Dynasty in China. Xu Hongzu's pen name was Xia Ke and his literary name was Zhenzhi. He was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. His family had produced many generations of government officials, but after failing the imperial examinations once, he devoted himself to reading, and was particularly interested in geography books. However, he was not satisfied with the traditional academic studies that were limited to desk-based interpretations of the words and phrases of classics, and in an attempt to observe nature with his own eyes, he began traveling at the age of 22. In the 30 years until he was 55, the year before his death, he traveled to almost all of China, except for the 14 provinces that were then in the northeast, the Western Regions, Sichuan, and Tibet.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，明末の徐弘祖(1586‐1641)の著作。徐弘祖は，号を霞客，字を振之という。江蘇省江陰の生れ。生家は代々官僚を出した家柄であったが，一度科挙に失敗したあとはみずから読書に努め，特に地理書に関心をもった。しかし古典の字句の机上解釈に終始する従来の学問にあき足らず，自分の眼で実際の自然を観察しようと，22歳より旅行を始め，死の前年の55歳に至るまでの30年間，その足跡は当時の14省，東北，西域，四川，チベットなどを除くほとんど全国にわたった。

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