
Tokyo
A Cultural History
Stephen Mansfield(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2009
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-19-538634-9 (ISBN)
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Frontispiece; Maps
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-538634-9 (9780195386349)
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