Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 Volume 7

by Marcia Yonemoto

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520232690
• ISBN13: 9780520232693
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"