num_pages: 249
description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts cultural practices and intellectual processesincluding maps and mapmaking poetry travel writing popular fiction and encyclopediasto 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.
language: English
title: Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868
publisher: University of California Press