Mapping Early Modern Japan
Subtitle: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780520232693
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian studies; Historical geography; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Civilization; History; History - General History; Japan; History: World; Asia - General; Asia - Japan; Earth Sciences - Geography; History / General; National characteristics, Japanese; 1600-1868; Ethnopsychology; National characteristics, Japa
First sentence: The cartographer Phillip C. Muehrcke has observed that even a map of a "real" place can be seen as a "controlled fiction," an act of creation as well as replication.