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Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road
- Title
- Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.
- Author
- Freedman, Alisa
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972.
- Description
- xiii, 333 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Japanese literature > Japan > Tokyo > History and criticism
- Local transit > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century
- Railroad travel > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century
- Tokyo (Japan) > In literature
- Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Commuting in literature
- Railroad travel in literature
- Tokyo (Japan) > Social life and customs > 1912-1945
- Commuting > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-765
- ISBN
- 9780804771443 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804771448 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804771450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804771456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010024486
- OCLC
- YBP 2010024486
- Author
- Freedman, Alisa.
- Title
- Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-765