Matthew Turner was born in Greytown, New Zealand in 1961. After graduating from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, he spent a year studying Japanese language and culture at Nagoya University as a Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholar. He was later awarded a second Monbusho Scholarship to do postgraduate research at Keio University.
In 2007, inspired by the landscape prints of the ukiyo-e artist Ando Hiroshige, he walked from Kyoto to Tokyo along the ancient Nakasendo trail, a distance of more than 530 kilometres. He has written about this and subsequent travels through Japan on foot at http://thewalkingfool.blogspot.co.nz.
In 2007, inspired by the landscape prints of the ukiyo-e artist Ando Hiroshige, he walked from Kyoto to Tokyo along the ancient Nakasendo trail, a distance of more than 530 kilometres. He has written about this and subsequent travels through Japan on foot at http://thewalkingfool.blogspot.co.nz.
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| Photo: Masataka Kawaragi |
