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1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cities of the imagination |
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Cities of the imagination.
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Introduction -- Map -- Tokyo -- The Shell Mound -- The Citadel -- Edo Culture -- The Ripening City -- Meiji Imperium -- Taisho Style -- A Time of Calamities -- Tokyo Redux -- Dream Messenger |
| Summary |
From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, mouldering steles and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present and future coexist, Tokyo's thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past. As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux and transformation. The courtesans of its pleasure quarters inspired Edo-period woodblock artists, novelists and poets. In a later age, its experimental artists, feminist writers and Modern Girls of 1920s Ginza both shocked and electrified the capital. Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel through rise of a merchant class whose wealth transformed Edo into a home for artists, writers and performers. In contemporary Tokyo he explores the unique crossbred cultures of taste that make the giant conurbation one of the most exciting and creative cities in the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (259-261) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Japanese literature -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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Civilization
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Intellectual life
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Japanese literature
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Literature
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Manners and customs
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Tokyo (Japan) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135856
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135854
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135861
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Intellectual life
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Tokyo (Japan) -- In literature
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| Subject |
Japan -- Tokyo
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781904955863 |
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190495586X |
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