A malleable map [[electronic resource] ] : geographies of restoration in central Japan, 1600-1912 / / Kären Wigen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463120803321
• Autore: Wigen Kären <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9786612697692; 1-282-69769-2; 0-520-94580-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Collana: Asia, local studies/global themes
• Disciplina: 911/.520903
• Soggetti: Cartography - Japan - History; Electronic books.; Nagano-ken (Japan) Historical geography; Nagano-ken (Japan) History; Japan Administrative and political divisions History; Japan Maps History; Japan Historical geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Conventions Followed In The Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. Shinano In The Nation -- 2. Shinano Up Close -- 3. Shinano In The World -- Introduction -- 4. The Poetry Of Statistics -- 5. Pedagogies Of Place -- 6. A Pan-Provincial Press -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary-Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.