is a manga series by , published by
Kadokawa Kadokawa may refer to:
*Kadokawa Corporation, the holding company of the Kadokawa Group
**Kadokawa Content Gate and Kadokawa Mobile, both former names for BookWalker
**Kadokawa Future Publishing, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation and the publis ...
, portraying
Isabella Bird
Isabella Lucy Bishop (; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-da ...
's exploration of
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. It is serialized in the magazine ''
Harta''.
In May 2015 Kadokawa published the first ''
tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that w ...
'', and in 2018 it began publishing, within Japan, a bilingual Japanese-English version of the comic intended for Japanese people studying English. The bilingual version places the original Japanese text in the page margins with new English text taking its place. The bilingual comic volumes include a column from British journalist Ryohei Kawai ( ''Kawai Ryōhei'') and an interview with the author.
[ Kadokawa also publishes the manga in Taiwan. The company ]Éditions Ki-oon
Ki-oon is a French manga publisher with its head office in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
It was founded in October 2003 by Cécile Pournin and Ahmed Agne. It released its first manga in March 2004, the first volume of ''Element Line''. The n ...
publishes the manga in France, as ''Isabella Bird, femme exploratrice''.
Characters
* Isabella Bird
Isabella Lucy Bishop (; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-da ...
( ''Isabera Bādo'')
* ( ''Itō Tsurukichi'') – Bird's translator and guide
* James Hepburn ( ''Jēmusu Hebon'') – He helps Bird find a translator
* Sir Harry Parkes
Sir Harry Smith Parkes (24 February 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the Chinese ...
( ''Harī Pākusu'') – The British Consul to Japan, he helps Bird get the travel documents needed for her journey
* Fanny Parkes ( ''Fanī Pākusu'') – Harry Parkes's wife
See also
* '' Unbeaten Tracks in Japan'' – Isabella Bird's travel diary
Notes
References
External links
ふしぎの国のバード
– Comic Walker, Kadokawa Kadokawa may refer to:
*Kadokawa Corporation, the holding company of the Kadokawa Group
**Kadokawa Content Gate and Kadokawa Mobile, both former names for BookWalker
**Kadokawa Future Publishing, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation and the publis ...
*
2015 manga
Enterbrain manga
Seinen manga
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