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Kansai cool : a journey into the cultural heartland of Japan / Christal Whelan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whelan, Christal, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- Japan--Civilization.
- Japan.
- Civilization.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Japan--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Popular culture--Japan.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2014]
- Summary:
- Writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers deep insights into the clash of old and new, traditional and modern that plays out on a daily basis in Japan's ancient heartland. The western region of Japan is known as Kansai--centering around the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, and the sprawling, modern port cities of Osaka and Kobe. Kansai is Japan's "second region" after Tokyo--and is at once home to Japan's most traditional cultural centers and its most modern culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
- ISBN:
- 9784805312803
- 4805312807
- OCLC:
- 870401097
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