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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783035003321

Autore

Yonemoto Marcia <1964->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786612356599

1-282-35659-3

0-520-92830-X

1-59734-733-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 7

Disciplina

915.204/25

Soggetti

National characteristics, Japanese

Ethnopsychology - Japan

Japan Civilization 1600-1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.