Japanese capitals in historical perspective : place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo
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.
History
xiii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780700714094, 9780415405812, 070071409X, 0415405815
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Introduction : Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo : urban histories in parallels and tangents / Paul Waley and Nicolas Fiévé
pt. 1. Power and the spatial imprints of authority
Castles in Kyoto at the close of the age of warring states : the urban fortresses of the Ashikaga Shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki / Takahashi Yasuo, with Matthew Stavros
Social discrimination and architectural freedom in the pleasure district of Kyoto in early modern Japan / Nicolas Fiévé
Urbanisation and the nature of the Tokugawa hegemony / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey
Metaphors of the metropolis : architectural and artistic representations of the identity of Edo / William H. Coaldrake
pt. 2. Memory and the chaning passage of space
Kyoto's famous places : collective memory and 'monuments' in the Tokugawa period / Nicolas Fiévé
Representing mobility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan / Jilly Traganou
By ferry to factory : crossing Tokyo's great river into a new world / Paul Waley
From a shogunal city to a life city : Tokyo between two fin-de-siècles / Mikako Iwatake
Time perception, or the ineluctable aging of material in architecture / Murielle Hladik
pt. 3. Place between future and past
The past in Tokyo's future : Kōda Rohan's thoughts on urban reform and the new citizen in Ikkoku no shuto (One nation's capital) / Evelyn Schulz
Visionary plans and planners : Japanese traditions and Western influences / Carola Hein
Kyoto and the preservation of urban landscapes / Yamasaki Masafumi, with Paul Waley
Preservation and revitalization of machiya in Kyoto / Kinoshita Ryōichi
Conclusion : power, memory, and place / Paul Waley
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