Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens : Nation, Nature, Heritage, and Modernity since The 1890s

• Autore: Tagsold Christian
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages)
• Soggetto topico: ART / Art & Politics; GARDENING / Garden Types / Japanese; HISTORY / Asia / Japan
• Soggetto non controllato: Art and Material Cultures; Cultural Studies; Heritage and Memory Studies; South; East Asia and North East Asia; Modern History; AUP Wetenschappelijk; Urban Cultures; Asian Studies; Japanese gardens; nationalism; nature; modernity; Japan; heritage
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Defining Gardens in/for Japan-From the Edo Era to the Mid-Meiji Period -- Chapter 2: Building New Gardens-The Meiji and Taishō Periods -- Chapter 3: Appreciating New Japanese Gardens in the West-From the Late Meiji to Early Shōwa Periods -- Chapter 4: The Nation and Japanese Gardens-From the Taishō Period to the End of World War II -- Chapter 5: The Garden in Our Backyard-The Postwar Decades -- Chapter 6: Gardens as National Heritage between Scholars and Bureaucrats-From the Postwar Era to the Heisei Period -- Chapter 7: Turning Gardens into Attractions-The Present Landscape -- Chapter 8: A Past Modernity as Heritage? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity.Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in horticulture, seeking garden designs that broke away from established patterns.
• Titolo autorizzato: Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens
• ISBN: 90-485-6380-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996716702503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno