Civilization and Monsters
Subtitle: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780822324188
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Folklore; Body, Mind & Spirit; Political; History - General History; Japanese literature; General; Anthropology - Cultural; Asia - Japan; Customs & Traditions; Anthropology/Ethnography; Asian Studies; History, Asian; Meiji period, 1868-1912; 1868-1912; Civilization; Japan
First sentence: In 1922, Kajima Manbei offered the above recollection of what the scene at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo looked like circa 1865, about three years prior to the Meiji Restoration.