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ISBN10: 0415310911, ISBN13: 9780415310918, [publisher: New York ; London : RoutledgeCurzon] Hardcover First Edition 272 pages, illustrations : 24 cm. CONTENTS: List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction 2. Infrastructure and Cartography of the Tokaido in Macro 2.1. The Tokaido as a Geopolitical Territory 2.2. Infrastructure upon the Tokaido Route 2.3. The Tokaido's Cartography 3. Travelling Practices and Literary Tokaido 3.1. Road Cosmology - The Road as a Microcosm 3.2. Travelling Practices of the Edo Period 3.3. Literary Tokaido 4. Performance, Visuality and Imagination at the Tokaido's Micro-Scale 4.1. Transportation-Stations: Spaces of Performance, Spaces of Representation 4.2. Tokaido and Visuality 5. Conclusions and Openings: The Tokaido as Medium of National Knowledge 5.1. National Knowledge and Epistemology 5.2. History as Nostalgia, History as Play Bibliography Notes 'A comparative study of the Tokaido Road's representations during the Edo and Meiji eras. In the latter, it was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and westernization - fundamental in shaping the Tokaido and the realm of travelling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people.' [Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]
Hardback. New. A comparative study of the Tokaido Road's representations during the Edo and Meiji eras. In the latter, it was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and westernization - fundamental in shaping the Tokaido and the realm of travelling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people. ISBN 0415310911 9780415310918 [GB]
ISBN10: 0415310911, ISBN13: 9780415310918, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]
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