Printing landmarks popular geography and Meisho Zue in late Tokugawa Japan /

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"Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goree, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 437.
Subjects:
Akisato, Ritō, > active 1780-1814.
Books and reading > Japan > History.
Cultural geography > Japan.
Publishers and publishing > Japan > History.
Livres et lecture > Japon > Histoire.
Géographie culturelle > Japon.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The reader as virtual traveler
  • The documentation and display of place
  • The book as map
  • A geography of abundance
  • The Ritō network and the long shadow of Miyako meisho zue.

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