Yuki and the one thousand carriers

By Gloria Whelan

Subjects: Japan, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Voyages and travels, Fiction, Children's fiction, Haiku, Juvenile fiction, History

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.