The Tôkaidô Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan - Brossura

Traganou, Jilly

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ISBN 10: 0415511143 ISBN 13: 9780415511148

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

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 was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and westernisation. Such representations were fundamental in shaping the Tôkaidô and the realm of travelling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people.

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Recensione:

'Of great value for those interested in the history of traveling in Japan, and more specifically of traveling along the Tôkaidô.' - Society for Japanese Arts Newsletter

'What Treganou gives is a compendium of the culture andhistory of the Tôkaidô in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It is a helpful work that will encourage serious thinking about the range of issues it covers.' - Journal of School of Oriental and African Studies

L'autore:

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

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415511143
• ISBN 13: 9780415511148
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304