Mapping Early Modern Japan

Mapping Early Modern Japan
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780520928305
ISBN-13 : 052092830X
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Book Synopsis Mapping Early Modern Japan by : Marcia Yonemoto

Download or read book Mapping Early Modern Japan written by Marcia Yonemoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.


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