Mapping early modern Japan : space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 /
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| Author / Creator: | Yonemoto, Marcia, 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, ©2003. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia-Local studies/global themes ; 7 Asia--local studies/global themes ; 7. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129515 |
| Summary: | 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 how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520928305 052092830X 1282356593 9781282356597 9780520232693 0520232690 9786612356599 6612356596 1597347337 9781597347334 |