 There are variant versions of "Travelers of a Hundred Ages"; the original English version published by Henry Holt deals with diaries between the 850s CE and up to c. 1850, while the Japanese version has a continuation that brings the time span up to c. 1925, in addition to certain chapters that were omitted from the Holt edition "because it seemed unlikely that they would interest readers outside Japan".An expanded edition was later published by Columbia University Press in 1999.Thematically, the essays are grouped by historical period.