UID:
almafu_9959238328202883
Format:
1 online resource (305 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-38748-2
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1-134-38749-0
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1-280-15584-1
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0-203-45797-8
Content:
The Tôkaidô Road offers a comparative study of the Tôkaidô road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. Throughout the Edo era, the Tôkaidô highway was the most important route of Japan and transportation was confined to foot travel. In 1889, the Tôkaidô Railway was established, at first paralleling and eventually almost eliminating the use of the highway. During both periods, the Tôkaidô was a popular topic of representation and was depicted in a variety of visual and literary media. After the installation of the railway in the Meiji era, the Tôkaidô
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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THE TŌKAIDŌ ROAD Traveling and representation in Edo and Meiji Japan; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The metaphorical road of the Tōkaidō: traveling and representation, traveling as representation; Mobility and the Tōkaidō as scholarly subjects; Structure of the book; 2 Infrastructure and cartography of the Tōkaidō in macro; The Tōkaidō as a geopolitical territory; Infrastructure upon the Tōkaidō route; The Tōkaidō's cartography; 3 Traveling practices and literary Tōkaidō; Road cosmology-the road as a microcosm; Traveling practices
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Literary Tōkaidō4 Performance, visuality and imagination at the Tōkaidō's microscale; Transportation-stations: spaces of performance, spaces of representation; Tōkaidō and visuality; 5 Conclusions and openings: the Tōkaidō as medium of national knowledge; National knowledge and epistemology; History as nostalgia, history as play; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-51114-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-31091-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203457979
