Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary

by Michael P Cronin and Michael P. Cronin

Images of the city in literature and film help constitute the experience of modern life. Studies of the Japanese city have focused on Tokyo, but a fuller understanding of urban space and life requires analysis of other cities, beginning with Osaka. Japan's "merchant capital" in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center--the "Manchester of the East"--into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo's. It therefore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975189
• ISBN13: 9780674975187
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"