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Tokyo a Cultural History

By Stephen Mansfield

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Year
2009
ISBN
9780199729654, 9780195386349
LCC
DS896.5 .M367 2009
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8277202 bytes)
Series
Cityscapes Series
Pages
289\0
Time added
2023-08-21 16:04:23
Tokyo (Japan)-Civilization. ; Tokyo (Japan)-Histor

Description

Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

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