Jilly Traganou

The Tôkaidô Road (eBook, ePUB)

Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a comparative study of representations of the Tôkaidô road, the most important route of Japan during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134387489
• Artikelnr.: 38250448

Autorenporträt

Jilly Traganou currently teaches Architecture at the University of Texas. She has contributed to Japanese Capitals and Suburbanizing the Masses.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction 2. Infrastructure
and Cartography of the Tôkaidô in Macro 2.1. The Tôkaidô as a Geopolitical
Territory 2.2. Infrastructure upon the Tôkaidô Route 2.3. The Tôkaidô's
Cartography 3. Travelling Practices and Literary Tôkaidô 3.1. Road
Cosmology - The Road as a Microcosm 3.2. Travelling Practices of the Edo
Period 3.3. Literary Tôkaidô 4. Performance, Visuality and Imagination at
the Tôkaidô's Micro-Scale 4.1. Transportation-Stations: Spaces of
Performance, Spaces of Representation 4.2. Tôkaidô and Visuality 5.
Conclusions and Openings: The Tôkaidô as Medium of National Knowledge 5.1.
National Knowledge and Epistemology 5.2. History as Nostalgia, History as
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