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Author:

Screech, Timon, author.

Title:

Tokyo before Tokyo : power and magic in the Shogun's city of Edo / Timon Screech.

Publisher:

Reaktion Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Edojō (Tokyo, Japan)--Pictorial works.
Edojō (Tokyo, Japan)
1600-1868
Tokyo (Japan)--History--1600-1868.
Tokyo (Japan)--In art.
Japan--Tokyo.
Art.
History.
Pictorial works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. The ideal city -- 2. The centre of the Shogun's realm -- 3. Edo as sacred space -- 4. Reading Edo Castle -- 5. The city's poetic presence -- 6. A Trip to the Yoshiwara - Epilogue:From Edo to Tokyo.

Summary:

Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called 'Edo,' was the locus of Japanese trade, economics and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan's modern capital. This illustrated book presents important sites and features from the rich history of Edo, drawn from contemporary sources such as diaries, guidebooks and woodblock prints. These include the huge bridge on which the city was centred, the vast castle of the shogun, sumptuous Buddhist temples, bars, kabuki theatres and the Yoshiwara, Edo's famous red-light district.

ISBN:

1789142334
9781789142334

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1113915075

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)