A01=Marcia Yonemoto
Author_Marcia Yonemoto
cartography
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commercial publishers
early modern japan
east asia
encyclopedia
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geographical knowledge
geography
gesaku
government power
japan
japanese history
japanese studies
mapmaking
maps
modern japan
national identity
nonfiction
poetry
popular culture
popular fiction
power of maps
realm
representation of space
samurai
satire
satire comics
sense of space
shogunal
shogunate
social commentary
space and place
space theory
tokugawa
tokugawa edo period
travel
travel writing
travelogue
Product details
- ISBN 9780520232693
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Marcia Yonemoto is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
