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Author : Kären Wigen
Release : 1990
Genre : Geography
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Book Synopsis The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History by : Kären Wigen
Download or read book The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History written by Kären Wigen. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Release : 2003-04-21
Genre : History
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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. This book was released on 2003-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This is a book about "geographical imagination" through the prism of maps, travel accounts, fiction, and other cultural works that helped fashion understandings of space and place in early modern Japan.
Author : Nobuko Toyosawa
Release : 2021-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Imaginative Mapping by : Nobuko Toyosawa
Download or read book Imaginative Mapping written by Nobuko Toyosawa. This book was released on 2021-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. These scholars saw landscapes as repositories of local history and identity, stressing Japan’s differences from the models of China and the West. By detailing the continuities and ruptures between a sense of shared cultural community that emerged in the seventeenth century and the modern nation state of the late nineteenth century, this study sheds new light on the significance of early modernity, one defined not by temporal order but rather by spatial diffusion of the concept of Japan. More precisely, Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation of guidebooks and other spatial narratives not only promoted further movement but also contributed to the formation of subjectivity by allowing readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan. The recurring claims to the landscape are evidence that it was the medium for the construction of Japan as a unified cultural body.
Author : Conrad Totman
Release : 1995-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Early Modern Japan by : Conrad Totman
Download or read book Early Modern Japan written by Conrad Totman. This book was released on 1995-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) that blends political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. It also introduces a fresh ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.
Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Release : 2020-11-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Voices of Early Modern Japan by : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Download or read book Voices of Early Modern Japan written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. This book was released on 2020-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.
