Abstract
Ryotaro Shiba has attracted and retained Japanese readers to his travelogue series, written while travelling the old roads of Japan and several other countries, for 40 years. The appeal of the series may be the fact that readers are able to imagine themselves on the old roads and discover new things through Shiba's eyes. The term 'abundance' was selected as a key word because Shiba seemed to use it frequently to describe his surroundings during his travels. In this paper, I analyzed the frequency of the term and how it was used by Shiba in 43 books. Results indicate that Shiba mainly used the term 'abundance' to portray the richness of nature in terms of its value to humans in 4 main time periods.
