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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jilly Traganou |
ISBN: | 0415310911 9780415310918 |
OCLC Number: | 52347509 |
Description: | xvii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Infrastructure and cartography of the Tokaido in macro -- 3. Traveling practices and literary Tokaido -- 4. Performance, visuality and imagination at the Tokaido's micro-scale -- 5. Conclusions and openings: the Tokaido as medium of national knowledge. |
Responsibility: | Jilly Traganou. |
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A comparative study of the Tokaido Road's representations during the Edo and Meiji eras. In the latter, it was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and westernization - fundamental in shaping the Tokaido and the realm of travelling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people.
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'Of great value for those interested in the history of traveling in Japan, and more specifically of traveling along the Tokaido.' - Society for Japanese Arts Newsletter'What Treganou gives is a compendium of the culture andhistory of the Tokaido in the seventeenth to nineteenth centureis. 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 Read more...
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by rdbarton updated 2012-11-12