Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan

by Robert Goree

Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247876
• ISBN13: 9780674247871
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 10.0"