Printing landmarks: popular geography and meisho zue in late Tokugawa Japan

"Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous pl...

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Main Author: Goree, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Asia Center 2020
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs 437
Summary:"Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience places located all over the Japanese archipelago."...Provided by publisher
Physical Description:400 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780674247871

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