Cartographic Japan : a history in maps / edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas
- Bib ID:
- 7089909
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- xi, 269 pages ; 29 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780226073057
- 022607305X
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780226073194
- Full contents:
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- Japan in a new-found world / Joseph LOH
- The world from the waterline / Peter D. SHAPINSKY
- Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination / OKA Mihoko
- Mapping the margins of Japan / Ronald P. TOBY
- The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom / WATANABE Miki
- The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan / SATOH Ken'ichi
- The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan / Marcia YONEMOTO
- A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe / MATSUI Yōko
- The arms and legs of the realm / Constantine N. VAPORIS
- Visualizing the political world through provincial maps / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
- Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
- Self-portrait of a village / KOMEIE Taisaku
- Characteristics of premodern urban space / TAMAI Tetsuo
- Evolving cartography of an ancient capital / UESUGI Kazuhiro
- Historical landscapes of Osaka / UESUGI Kazuhiro
- The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context / TAMAI Tetsuo
- Spatial visions of status / Ronald P. TOBY
- The social landscape of Edo / Paul WALEY
- What is a street? / Mary Elizabeth BERRY
- Locating Japan in a Buddhist world / D. Max MOERMAN
- Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai / Henry D. SMITH II
- An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji / MIYAZAKI Fumiko
- Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita / Anne WALTHALL
- Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map / Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
- Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century / Robert GOREE
- A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances / Kären WIGEN and Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
- Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace / Nicolas FIÉVÉ
- New routes through old Japan / Roderick WILSON
- Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast / SUZUKI Junko
- No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay / SUZUKI Junko
- Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions / Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI
- Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire / Brett L. WALKER
- Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity / Daniel BOTSMAN
- Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo / Steven WILLS
- Mapping death and destruction in 1923 / J. Charles SCHENCKING
- Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake / André SORENSEN
- Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space / Henry D. SMITH II
- Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 / Brett L. WALKER
- Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan / Philip C. BROWN
- Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) / Todd A. HENRY
- Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s / Carola HEIN
- A two-timing map / Catherine L. PHIPPS
- Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific / David FEDMAN
- Blackened cities, blackened maps / Cary KARACAS and David FEDMAN
- The occupied city / Cary KARACAS
- Sacred space on postwar Fuji / Andrew BERNSTEIN
- Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima / Carola HEIN
- Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period / André SORENSEN
- On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo / Bruce SUTTMEIER
- Traversing Tokyo by subway / Alisa FREEDMAN
- The uses of a free paper map in the internet age / Susan Paige TAYLOR
- Tsukiji at the end of an era / Theodore C. BESTOR
- Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps / Gregory SMITS
- Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami / Jilly TRAGANOU
- Run & escape! / SATOH Ken'ichi
- Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state / Fabian DRIXLER
- Reconstructing provincial maps / NAKAMURA Yūsuke
- The art of making oversize graphic maps / ARAI Kei.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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