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xiii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Introduction: Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo: urban histories in parallels and tangents / Paul Waley and Nicolas Fiéve -- Pt 1: Power and the spatial imprints of authority. 1. Castles in Kyoto at the close of the age of warring states: the urbam fortresses of the Ashikaga shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki / Takahashi Yasuo, with Matthew Stavros -- 2. Social discrimination and architectural freedom in the pleasure district of Kyoto in early modern Japan / Nicolas Fiévé -- 3. Urbanisation and the nature of the Tokugawa hegemony / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey -- 4. Metaphors of the metropolis: architectural and artistic representations of the identity of Edo / William H. Coaldrake -- Pt 2: Memory and the changing passage of space. 5. Kyoto's famous places: collective memory and 'monuments' in the Tokugawa period / Nicolas Fiéve -- 6. Representing mobility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan / Jilly Traganou -- 7. By ferry to factory: crossing Tokyo's great river into a new world / Paul Waley -- |
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8. From a shogunal city to a life city: Tokyo between two fin-de-siècles / Mikako Iwatake -- 9. Time perception, or the ineluctable aging of material in architecture / Murielle Hladik -- Pt 3: Place between future and past. 10. The past in Tokyo's future: Kōda Rohan's thoughts on urban reform and the new citizen in Ikkoku no shuto (one nation's capital) / Evelyn Schulz -- 11. Visionary plans and planners: Japanese traditions and western influences / Carola Hein -- 12. Kyoto and the preservation of urban landscapes / Yamasaki Masafumi, with Paul Waley -- 13. Preservation and revitalization of machiya in Kyoto / Kinoshita Ryōichi -- 14. Conclusion: power, memory, and place / Paul Waley |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Capitals (Cities) -- Japan -- History.
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Cities and towns -- Japan -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Kyoto (Japan) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073575
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Tokyo (Japan) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135856
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Kyoto (Japan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80024170
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Tokyo (Japan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034998
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| Author |
Fiévé, Nicolas.
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Waley, Paul.
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| ISBN |
070071409X |
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