| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Asia-Local studies/global themes ; 7 |
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 7
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| Contents |
Envisioning the realm: administrative and commercial maps in the early modern period -- Annotating Japan: the reinvention of travel writing in the late seventeenth century -- Narrating Japan: travel and the writing of cultural difference in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Imagining Japan, inventing the world: foreign knowledge and fictional journeys in the eighteenth century -- Remapping Japan: satire, pleasure, and place in late Tokugawa fiction |
| Summary |
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias-to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Japanese.
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Ethnopsychology -- Japan
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TRAVEL.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Civilization
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Ethnopsychology
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National characteristics, Japanese
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Cartografie.
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Reisbeschrijvingen.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069370
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| Subject |
Japan. -- History of cartography. -- [literature] -- 2003.
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520928305 |
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052092830X |
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1282356593 |
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9781282356597 |
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9780520232693 |
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0520232690 |
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9786612356599 |
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6612356596 |
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1597347337 |
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9781597347334 |
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