Japanese capitals in historical perspective : place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo / / edited by Nicolas Fieve and Paul Waley

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (800 p.)
• Disciplina: 952/.009732
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Japan - Kyoto; Cities and towns - Japan - Tokyo
• Soggetto geografico: Kyoto (Japan) History; Tokyo (Japan) History; Japan Civilization
• Altri autori: FieveNicolas WaleyPaul
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part one. Power and the spatial imprints of authority -- part two. Memory and the changing passage of space -- part three. Place between future and past.
• Sommario/riassunto: Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Japanese capitals in historical perspective
• ISBN: 1-136-62482-1; 0-415-40581-5; 1-315-02066-1; 1-136-62475-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790788403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II