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Mapping Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto
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Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520928305

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This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto
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Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520965584

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The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manuals for women—as well as diaries, memoirs, and letters written by and about individual women from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century—Marcia Yonemoto explores the dynamic nature of Japanese women’s lives during the early modern era.

Japan in Print

Mary Elizabeth Berry
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520237667

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“Anyone interested in the history of media and communications should read Beth Berry's extraordinary book. Learned, lucid, and lively, it has much to teach students of premodern societies in Europe and elsewhere.”—Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University “In Japan in Print, Mary Elizabeth Berry crisply condenses a remarkable amount of primary research on difficult and little-known materials, and it interprets those materials in a highly original framework. The scholarship is superb, and the writing is as masterful as the research. Anyone interested in East Asian cultural production will find this compelling reading.”—Kären E. Wigen, author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 “This is a very important book, not only for its insights into a vast body of previously overlooked texts, but also for its methodology. While historians have known that early modern Japan produced maps, for example, no one has heretofore compared them to their medieval predecessors or examined them for what they say about an emerging Japanese cartographic imagination. This is a highly original work, and it will change the field.”—Anne Walthall, author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration

Early Modern Japan

Conrad Totman
Early Modern Japan Book PDF

Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520203563

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This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.

Imaginative Mapping

Nobuko Toyosawa
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Author : Nobuko Toyosawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176014

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Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. These scholars saw landscapes as repositories of local history and identity, stressing Japan’s differences from the models of China and the West. By detailing the continuities and ruptures between a sense of shared cultural community that emerged in the seventeenth century and the modern nation state of the late nineteenth century, this study sheds new light on the significance of early modernity, one defined not by temporal order but rather by spatial diffusion of the concept of Japan. More precisely, Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation of guidebooks and other spatial narratives not only promoted further movement but also contributed to the formation of subjectivity by allowing readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan. The recurring claims to the landscape are evidence that it was the medium for the construction of Japan as a unified cultural body.

Voices of Early Modern Japan

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
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Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280913

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In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.

Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen
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Author : John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400868957

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Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan by John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen Pdf

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Malleable Map

Kären Wigen
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Author : Kären Wigen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520945807

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Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d’état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing on a wide range of geographical documents from Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Wigen argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600–1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868–1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Nor were they alone; provincial men of letters played an equally critical role in bringing imperial geography back to life in the countryside. To substantiate these claims, Wigen traces the continuing career of the classical court’s most important unit of governance—the province—in central Honshu.

Cartographic Japan

Kären Wigen,Sugimoto Fumiko,Cary Karacas
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Author : Kären Wigen,Sugimoto Fumiko,Cary Karacas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226073057

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Introduction to Part II - Kären Wigen -- Mapping the City -- 13. Characteristics of Premodern Urban Space - Tamai Tetsuo -- 14. Evolving Cartography of an Ancient Capital - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 15. Historical Landscapes of Osaka - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 16. The Urban Landscape of Early Edo in an East Asian Context - Tamai Tetsuo -- 17. Spatial Visions of Status - Ronald P. Toby -- 18. The Social Landscape of Edo - Paul Waley -- 19. What Is a Street? - Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Sacred Sites and Cosmic Visions -- 20. Locating Japan in a Buddhist World - D. Max Moerman

Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan

Gerald Groemer
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Author : Gerald Groemer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811373763

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Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan by Gerald Groemer Pdf

This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors to allow Edo, or at least some of the voices that constituted Edo, to do most of the speaking. These voices become audible in the work of five Japanese eye-witness observers, who notated what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, experienced, and remembered. “An Eastern Stirrup,” presents a vivid portrait of the great conflagration of 1657 that nearly wiped out the city. “Tales of Long Long Ago,” details seventeenth-century warrior-class ways as depicted by a particularly conservative samurai. “The River of Time,” describes the city and its flourishing cultural and economic development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The Spider’s Reel” looks back at both the attainments and calamities of Edo in the 1780s. Finally, “Disaster Days,” offers a meticulous account of Edo life among the ruins of the catastrophic 1855 tremor. Read in sequence, these five pieces offer a unique “insider’s perspective” on the city of Edo and early modern Japan.

Japoniæ Insulæ

Jason C. Hubbard
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Author : Jason C. Hubbard
Publisher : Utrecht Studies in the History
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9061945313

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Japoniæ Insulæ by Jason C. Hubbard Pdf

"This title systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all the European printed maps of Japan published to 1800. The author has undertaken a review of the literature, conducted an exhaustive investigation in major libraries and private collections, analyzed these findings and then compiled information on 125 maps of Japan. The introduction contains information about the mapping to 1800, the typology of Japan by western cartographers, an overview on geographical names on early modern western maps of Japan and a presentation of the major cartographic models developed for this book".--Cover.

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

William E. Deal
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan Book PDF

Author : William E. Deal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195331264

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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by William E. Deal Pdf

This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.

Early Modern China and Northeast Asia

Evelyn S. Rawski
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Author : Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107093089

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Early Modern China and Northeast Asia by Evelyn S. Rawski Pdf

Evelyn Rawski presents a revisionist history of early modern China in the context of northeast Asian geopolitics and global maritime trade.

Voices of Early Modern Japan

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Voices of Early Modern Japan Book PDF

Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280951

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Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Pdf

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan Book PDF

Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520292000

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The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manuals for womenÑas well as diaries, memoirs, and letters written by and about individual women from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth centuryÑMarcia Yonemoto explores the dynamic nature of Japanese womenÕs lives during the early modern era.