Abstract
This research investigates how W. E. L. Keelingʼs Tourists' Guide (1880) describes Kyoto's famous places and newly popular activities through British eyes. K. Yamamotoʼs Celebrated Places in Kiyoto (1873), which was issued for the Kyoto Exposition, is used for comparison to ascertain its influence on Tourists' Guide. Keeling selected from Yamamoto's list of tourist spots, as well as from Kyoto Exposition venues including Imperial palaces and high-ranking temples. His guidebook was also found to have been greatly influenced by older travel writings by Westerners including the Swede Carl Thunberg, the German Engelbert Kaempfer, and the sixteenth-century Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis. Keeling introduces popular activities including dinner with geisha and shooting the rapids; he vividly describes and recommends the latter. Influenced by earlier travel writings by Westerners as well as by the Kyoto Exposition and Yamamoto's guide, Keeling's Tourists' Guide is an important historical document and an exciting piece of travel writing that depicts Kyoto's inbound tourism in the early Meiji period.
