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 many years. In the past, I selected several key words used in his travelogue series, and tried to analyze the appeal of the travel itself through Shiba's eyes. This time, I selected the term 'nostalgia' 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 'nostalgia' to portray the simple daily life led by people he met on his travels.
