Cartographic Japan
Subtitle: a history in maps
By: edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780226073057
Subjects: Cartography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japan in a new-found world / Joseph LOH; title: The world from the waterline / Peter D. SHAPINSKY; title: Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination / OKA Mihoko; title: Mapping the margins of Japan / Ronald P. TOBY; title: The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom / WATANABE Miki; title: The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan / SATOH Ken'ichi; title: The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan / Marcia YONEMOTO; title: A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe / MATSUI Yōko; title: The arms and legs of the realm / Constantine N. VAPORIS; title: Visualizing the political world through provincial maps / SUGIMOTO Fumiko; title: Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters / SUGIMOTO Fumiko; title: Self-portrait of a village / KOMEIE Taisaku; title: Characteristics of premodern urban space / TAMAI Tetsuo; title: Evolving cartography of an ancient capital / UESUGI Kazuhiro; title: Historical landscapes of Osaka / UESUGI Kazuhiro; title: The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context / TAMAI Tetsuo; title: Spatial visions of status / Ronald P. TOBY; title: The social landscape of Edo / Paul WALEY; title: What is a street? / Mary Elizabeth BERRY; title: Locating Japan in a Buddhist world / D. Max MOERMAN; title: Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai / Henry D. SMITH II; title: An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji / MIYAZAKI Fumiko; title: Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita / Anne WALTHALL; title: Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map / Sayoko SAKAKIBARA; title: Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century / Robert GOREE; title: A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances / Kären WIGEN and Sayoko SAKAKIBARA; title: Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace / Nicolas FIÉVÉ; title: New routes through old Japan / Roderick WILSON; title: Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast / SUZUKI Junko; title: No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay / SUZUKI Junko; title: Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions / Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI; title: Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire / Brett L. WALKER; title: Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity / Daniel BOTSMAN; title: Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo / Steven WILLS; title: Mapping death and destruction in 1923 / J. Charles SCHENCKING; title: Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake / André SORENSEN; title: Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space / Henry D. SMITH II; title: Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 / Brett L. WALKER; title: Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan / Philip C. BROWN; title: Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) / Todd A. HENRY; title: Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s / Carola HEIN; title: A two-timing map / Catherine L. PHIPPS; title: Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific / David FEDMAN; title: Blackened cities, blackened maps / Cary KARACAS and David FEDMAN; title: The occupied city / Cary KARACAS; title: Sacred space on postwar Fuji / Andrew BERNSTEIN; title: Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima / Carola HEIN; title: Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period / André SORENSEN; title: On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo / Bruce SUTTMEIER; title: Traversing Tokyo by subway / Alisa FREEDMAN; title: The uses of a free paper map in the internet age / Susan Paige TAYLOR; title: Tsukiji at the end of an era / Theodore C. BESTOR; title: Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps / Gregory SMITS; title: Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami / Jilly TRAGANOU; title: Run & escape! / SATOH Ken'ichi; title: Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state / Fabian DRIXLER; title: Reconstructing provincial maps / NAKAMURA Yūsuke; title: The art of making oversize graphic maps / ARAI Kei.