Mapping early modern Japan : space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 / Marcia Yonemoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yonemoto, Marcia, 1964-

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 7.

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Japanese.

Ethnopsychology--Japan.

Ethnopsychology.

Japan--Civilization--1600-1868.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Notes to the Reader

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Chapter 1. Envisioning the Realm: Administrative and Commercial Maps in the Early Modern Period

Chapter 2. Annotating Japan: The Reinvention of Travel Writing in the Late Seventeenth Century

Chapter 3. Narrating Japan: Travel and the Writing of Cultural Difference in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 4. Imagining Japan, Inventing the World: Foreign Knowledge and Fictional Journeys in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 5. Remapping Japan: Satire, Pleasure, and Place in Late Tokugawa Fiction

Conclusion: Famous Places Are Not National Spaces

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612356599

9781282356597

1282356593

9780520928305

052092830X

9781597347334

1597347337

OCLC:

437143956