Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Alisa.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Japan--Tokyo--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Commuting in literature.

Railroad travel in literature.

Commuting--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Commuting.

Railroad travel--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Railroad travel.

Local transit--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Local transit.

Local transit--Social aspects.

History.

Commuting--Social aspects.

Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs--1912-1945.

Tokyo (Japan).

Tokyo (Japan)--In literature.

Japan--Tokyo.

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles

Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains

Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation

Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life

From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination

The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English

ISBN:

9780804771443

0804771448

9780804771450

0804771456

OCLC:

630480127