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Cartographic Japan : a history in maps
Title
Cartographic Japan : a history in maps / edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas.
ISBN
9780226073057
022607305X
9780226073194
Publication
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
xi, 269 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Summary
Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet exquisite scrolls depicting sea and land routes. Today, Japanese people are zealous producers and consumers of cartography, and maps are an integral part of daily life.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 18, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Japan in a new-found world / Joseph LOH
The world from the waterline / Peter D. SHAPINSKY
Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination / OKA Mihoko
Mapping the margins of Japan / Ronald P. TOBY
The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom / WATANABE Miki
The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan / SATOH Ken'ichi
The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan / Marcia YONEMOTO
A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe / MATSUI Yōko
The arms and legs of the realm / Constantine N. VAPORIS
Visualizing the political world through provincial maps / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
Self-portrait of a village / KOMEIE Taisaku
Characteristics of premodern urban space / TAMAI Tetsuo
Evolving cartography of an ancient capital / UESUGI Kazuhiro
Historical landscapes of Osaka / UESUGI Kazuhiro
The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context / TAMAI Tetsuo
Spatial visions of status / Ronald P. TOBY
The social landscape of Edo / Paul WALEY
What is a street? / Mary Elizabeth BERRY
Locating Japan in a Buddhist world / D. Max MOERMAN
Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai / Henry D. SMITH II
An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji / MIYAZAKI Fumiko
Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita / Anne WALTHALL
Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map / Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century / Robert GOREE
A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances / Kären WIGEN and Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace / Nicolas FIÉVÉ
New routes through old Japan / Roderick WILSON
Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast / SUZUKI Junko
No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay / SUZUKI Junko
Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions / Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI
Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire / Brett L. WALKER
Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity / Daniel BOTSMAN
Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo / Steven WILLS
Mapping death and destruction in 1923 / J. Charles SCHENCKING
Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake / André SORENSEN
Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space / Henry D. SMITH II
Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 / Brett L. WALKER
Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan / Philip C. BROWN
Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) / Todd A. HENRY
Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s / Carola HEIN
A two-timing map / Catherine L. PHIPPS
Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific / David FEDMAN
Blackened cities, blackened maps / Cary KARACAS and David FEDMAN
The occupied city / Cary KARACAS
Sacred space on postwar Fuji / Andrew BERNSTEIN
Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima / Carola HEIN
Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period / André SORENSEN
On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo / Bruce SUTTMEIER
Traversing Tokyo by subway / Alisa FREEDMAN
The uses of a free paper map in the internet age / Susan Paige TAYLOR
Tsukiji at the end of an era / Theodore C. BESTOR
Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps / Gregory SMITS
Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami / Jilly TRAGANOU
Run & escape! / SATOH Ken'ichi
Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state / Fabian DRIXLER
Reconstructing provincial maps / NAKAMURA Yūsuke
The art of making oversize graphic maps / ARAI Kei.
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