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Author:

Freedman, Alisa.

Title:

Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Japanese literature--Tokyo--Tokyo--History and criticism.
Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Commuting in literature.
Railroad travel in literature.
Commuting--History--Tokyo--Tokyo--History--20th century.
Railroad travel--History--Tokyo--Tokyo--History--20th century.
Local transit--History--Tokyo--Tokyo--History--20th century.
Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs--1912-1945.
Tokyo (Japan)--In literature.

Other Authors:

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.

ISBN:

0804771456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804771450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804771448 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804771443 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)630480127

LCCN:

2010024486

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)