World travel edited from fragmented trips

An analysis of the travelogue works of photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma

Abstract

Travel writing has been an integral part of geography since the time of Ptolemy. Travel writing research is also making progress in the fields of literary studies and criticism. In this report, a collection of essays with photographs published in the 1980s and 1990s by photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma is interpreted as a travelogue. The countries visited, the years of visit and publication, and the photographs were analyzed from a chronological perspective. As in school textbooks, the essays are compiled in a sequence in which the descriptions of specific countries visited are grouped by world region, and each region is traced on a world map with a single stroke.