Nicolas Fiévé / Paul Waley (eds.)

Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective

Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, EDO and Tokyo
Herausgeber: Fieve, Nicolas; Waley, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Japan had one of the most highly urbanised societies in the early modern world. Concentrating on Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future of Japan's great capital cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780700714094
• ISBN-10: 070071409X
• Artikelnr.: 25450120

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Fieve, Paul Waley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo: Urban Histories in Parallels and
Tangents Part I: Power and the Spatial Imprints of Authority 1. Castles in
Kyoto at the Close of the Age of Warring States: The Urban Fortresses of
the Ashikaga Shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki 2. Social Discrimination and
Architectural Freedom in the Pleasure District of Kyoto in Early Modern
Japan 3. Urbanisation and the Nature of the Tokugawa Hegemony 4. Metaphors
of the Metropolis: Architectural and Artistic Representations of the
Identity of Edo Part II: Memory and the Changing Passage of Space 5.
Kyoto's Famous Places: Collective Memory and 'Monuments' in the Tokugawa
Period 6. Representing Mobility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan 7. By Ferry to
Factory: Crossing Tokyo's Great River into a New World 8. From a Shogunal
City to a Life city: Tokyo between Two Fin-de-siècles 9. Time Perception,
or the Ineluctable Aging of Material in Architecture Part III: Place
Between Future and Past 10. The Past in Tokyo's Future: Koda Rohan's
Thoughts on Urban Reform and the New Citizen in Ikkoku no shuto (One
nation's capital) 11. Visionary Plans and Planners: Japanese Traditions and
Western Influences 12. Kyoto and the Preservation of Urban Landscapes 13.
Preservation and Revitalization of machiya in Kyoto 14. Conclusion: Power,
Memory, and Place Glossary Index