A malleable map : geographies of restoration in central Japan, 1600-1912 / Karen Wigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigen, Kären, 1958-

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 17.

Asia, local studies/global themes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Japan--History.

Cartography.

Nagano-ken (Japan)--Historical geography.

Nagano-ken (Japan).

Nagano-ken (Japan)--History.

Japan--Administrative and political divisions--History.

Japan.

Japan--Maps--History.

Japan--Historical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Geographies of restoration in central Japan, 1600-1912

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing on a wide range of geographical documents from Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Wigen argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Nor were they alone; provincial men of letters played an equally critical role in bringing imperial geography back to life in the countryside. To substantiate these claims, Wigen traces the continuing career of the classical court's most important unit of governance-the province-in central Honshu.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Conventions Followed In The Text

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Shinano In The Nation

2. Shinano Up Close

3. Shinano In The World

4. The Poetry Of Statistics

5. Pedagogies Of Place

6. A Pan-Provincial Press

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary-Index

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612697692

9781282697690

1282697692

9780520945807

0520945808

OCLC:

649319924