The Tôkaidô Road: Travelling and Representation in EDO and Meiji Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415511148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Jilly Traganou

Opis

A comparative study of artistic representations of the Tokaido road during the Edo and Meiji eras. Across both periods the road was a popular subject of representation, and with the installation of the railway in 1889, the Tokaido was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and Westernization."

Spis treści

List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction 2. Infrastructure and Cartography of the Tôkaidô in Macro 2.1. The Tôkaidô as a Geopolitical Territory 2.2. Infrastructure upon the Tôkaidô Route 2.3. The Tôkaidô's Cartography 3. Travelling Practices and Literary Tôkaidô 3.1. Road Cosmology - The Road as a Microcosm 3.2. Travelling Practices of the Edo Period 3.3. Literary Tôkaidô 4. Performance, Visuality and Imagination at the Tôkaidô's Micro-Scale 4.1. Transportation-Stations: Spaces of Performance, Spaces of Representation 4.2. Tôkaidô and Visuality 5. Conclusions and Openings: The Tôkaidô as Medium of National Knowledge 5.1. National Knowledge and Epistemology 5.2. History as Nostalgia, History as Play Bibliography Notes

O autorze

Jilly Traganou currently teaches Architecture at the University of Texas. She has contributed to Japanese Capitals and Suburbanizing the Masses.