Cartographic Japan : A History in Maps /

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pionee...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bernstein, Andrew (Contribuidor), Berry, Mary Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Bestor, Theodore C. (Contribuidor), Botsman, Daniel (Contribuidor), Brown, Philip C. (Contribuidor), Drixler, Fabian (Contribuidor), Fedman, David (Contribuidor), Fiévé, Nicolas (Contribuidor), Freedman, Alisa (Contribuidor), Fumiko, Miyazaki (Contribuidor), Fumiko, Sugimoto (Contribuidor, Editor ), Goree, Robert (Contribuidor), Hein, Carola (Contribuidor), Henry, Todd A. (Contribuidor), Junko, Suzuki (Contribuidor), Karacas, Cary (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kazuhiro, Uesugi (Contribuidor), Kei, Arai (Contribuidor), Ken'ichi, Satoh (Contribuidor), Loh, Joseph (Contribuidor), Mihoko, Oka (Contribuidor), Miki, Watanabe (Contribuidor), Moerman, D. Max (Contribuidor), Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Contribuidor), Phipps, Catherine L. (Contribuidor), Sakakibara, Sayoko (Contribuidor), Schencking, J. Charles (Contribuidor), Shapinsky, Peter D. (Contribuidor), Smith, Henry D. (Contribuidor), Smits, Gregory (Contribuidor), Sorensen, André (Contribuidor), Suttmeier, Bruce (Contribuidor), Taisaku, Komeie (Contribuidor), Taylor, Susan Paige (Contribuidor), Tetsuo, Tamai (Contribuidor), Toby, Ronald P. (Contribuidor), Traganou, Jilly (Contribuidor), Vaporis, Constantine N. (Contribuidor), Waley, Paul (Contribuidor), Walker, Brett L. (Contribuidor), Walthall, Anne (Contribuidor), Wigen, Kären (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wills, Steven (Contribuidor), Wilson, Roderick (Contribuidor), Yoko, Matsui (Contribuidor), Yonemoto, Marcia (Contribuidor), Yusuke, Nakamura (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Cartography > Japan > Pictorial works.
Cartography > Japan > History.
Cartography > Japan > History.
HISTORY / General.
cartography, mapmaking, maps, map making, japanese, eastern, east, contemporary, modern, travel, atlas, teaching, education, educational, daily life, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, elite, class, classism, rulers, leadership, inequality, change, progress, society, social studies, landscape, 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, present day, surveying, political, provinces, coastal, technology.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Japanese Names and Terms
  • Introduction
  • I. Visualizing the Realm: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Japan in the World
  • 1 Japan and a New-Found World
  • 2 The World from the Waterline
  • 3 Elusive Islands of Silver: Japan in the Early European Geographic Imagination
  • 4 Mapping the Margins of Japan
  • 5 The Creators and Historical Context of the Oldest Maps of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  • 6 The Introduction of Dutch Surveying Instruments in Japan
  • 7 The European Career of Ishikawa Ryu¯sen's Map of Japan
  • 8 A New Map of Japan and Its Acceptance in Europe
  • Domestic Space
  • 9 The Arms and Legs of the Realm
  • 10 Visualizing the Political World through Provincial Maps
  • 11 Fixing Sacred Borders: Villagers, Monks, and Their Two Sovereign Masters
  • 12 Self-Portrait of a Village
  • II. Public Places, Sacred Spaces
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Mapping the City
  • 13 Characteristics of Premodern Urban Space
  • 14 Evolving Cartography of an Ancient Capital
  • 15 Historical Landscapes of Osaka
  • 16 The Urban Landscape of Early Edo in an East Asian Context
  • 17 Spatial Visions of Status
  • 18 The Social Landscape of Edo
  • 19 What Is a Street?
  • Sacred Sites and Cosmic Visions
  • 20 Locating Japan in a Buddhist World
  • 21 Picturing Maps: The "Rare and Wondrous" Bird's-Eye Views of Kuwagata Keisai
  • 22 An Artist's Rendering of the Divine Mount Fuji
  • 23 Rock of Ages: Traces of the Gods in Akita
  • 24 Cosmology and Science in Japan's Last Buddhist World Map
  • Travelscapes
  • 25 Fun with Moral Mapping in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  • 26 A Travel Map Adjusted to Urgent Circumstances
  • 27 Legendary Landscape at the Kitayama Palace
  • 28 New Routes through Old Japan
  • III. Modern Maps for Imperial Japan
  • Introduction to Part III
  • Defining the Borders
  • 29 Seeking Accuracy: The First Modern Survey of Japan's Coast
  • 30 No Foreigners Allowed: The Shogunate's Hydrographic Chart of the "Holy" Ise Bay
  • 31 Indigenous Knowledge in the Mapping of the Northern Frontier Regions
  • 32 Mamiya Rinzō and the Cartography of Empire
  • 33 Outcastes and Peasants on the Edge of Modernity
  • Transforming the City Scape
  • 34 Converging Lines: Yamakawa Kenjirō's Fire Map of Tokyo
  • 35 Mapping Death and Destruction in 1923
  • 36 Rebuilding Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake
  • 37 Shinjuku 1931: A New Type of Urban Space
  • Managing an Empire
  • 38 Mapping the Hōjō Colliery Explosion of 1914
  • 39 Cultivating Progress in Colonial Taiwan
  • 40 Showcase Thoroughfares, Wretched Alleys: The Uneven Development of Colonial Seoul (Keijo¯)
  • 41 Imperial Expansion and City Planning: Visions for Datong in the 1930s
  • 42 A Two-Timing Map
  • 43 Visions of a New Order in the Asia-Pacific
  • IV. Still under Construction: Cartography and Technology since 1945
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Up from the Ashes
  • 44 Blackened Cities, Blackened Maps
  • 45 The Occupied City
  • 46 Sacred Space on Postwar Fuji
  • 47 Tange Kenzō's Proposal for Rebuilding Hiroshima
  • 48 Visions of the Good City in the Rapid Growth Period
  • Growing Pains in a Global Metropolis
  • 49 On the Road in Olympic-Era Tokyo
  • 50 Traversing Tokyo by Subway
  • 51 The Uses of a Free Paper Map in the Internet Age
  • 52 Tsukiji at the End of an Era
  • New Directions in the Digital Age
  • 53 Probabilistic Earthquake Hazard Maps
  • 54 Citizens' Radiation Mapping after the Tsunami
  • 55 Run and Escape
  • 56 Postmortem Cartography: "Stillbirths" and the Meiji State
  • 57 Reconstructing Provincial Maps
  • 58 The Art of Making Oversize Graphic Maps
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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