1. Introduction -- 2. Infrastructure and cartography of the Tōkaidō in macro -- 3. Traveling practices and literary Tōkaidō -- 4. Performance, visuality and imagination at the Tōkaidō's microscale -- 5. Conclusions and openings : the Tōkaidō as medium of national knowledge
Summary
"The Tokaido Road offers a comparative study of the Tokaido road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. During both periods, the Tokaido was a popular topic of representation and was depicted in a variety of visual and literary media. This book, the first to examine the Tokaido's imagery from an academic perspective, aims to highlight how such representations were fundamental in shaping the Tokaido and the realm of traveling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index
