Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 234 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520232690
Series Statement:
Asia--local studies / global themes 7
Content:
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias-to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes to the Reader; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Envisioning the Realm: Administrative and Commercial Maps in the Early Modern Period; 2. Annotating Japan: The Reinvention of Travel Writing in the Late Seventeenth Century; 3. Narrating Japan: Travel and the Writing of Cultural Difference in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 4. Imagining Japan, Inventing the World: Foreign Knowledge and Fictional Journeys in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Remapping Japan: Satire, Pleasure, and Place in Late Tokugawa Fiction
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Conclusion: Famous Places Are Not National SpacesNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520232693
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mapping Early Modern Japan : Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868
Language:
English
