Ebook: Tokyo a Cultural History
Author: Stephen Mansfield
- Tags: Tokyo (Japan)-Civilization., Tokyo (Japan)-History., HIS021000, HIS054000, NON000000
- Series: Cityscapes Series
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Cary, United States
- Language: English
- epub
Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.
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