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Printing landmarks : popular geography and Meisho Zue in late Tokugawa Japan
- Title
- Printing landmarks : popular geography and Meisho Zue in late Tokugawa Japan / Robert Goree.
- Author
- Goree, Robert
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xxii, 374 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience palpable encounters with places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 437
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 437.
- Alternative Title
- Popular geography and Meisho Zue in late Tokugawa Japan
- Subject
- Akisato, Ritō, active 1780-1814
- 1600-1868
- Historic sites > Japan > Maps > Early works to 1800
- Thematic maps > Japan > History
- Cultural geography > Japan
- Publishers and publishing > Japan > History
- Books and reading > Japan > History
- Travel
- Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
- Books and reading
- Cultural geography
- Historiography
- Publishers and publishing
- Thematic maps
- Japan > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Japan > History > Historiography. > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
- Japan
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The reader as virtual traveler -- The documentation and display of place -- The book as map -- A geography of abundance -- The Ritō network and the long shadow of Miyako meisho zue.
- Call Number
- JFF 21-621
- ISBN
- 9780674247871
- 0674247876
- LCCN
- 2020014684
- 40030055277
- OCLC
- 1141431731
- Author
- Goree, Robert, author.
- Title
- Printing landmarks : popular geography and Meisho Zue in late Tokugawa Japan / Robert Goree.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 437Harvard East Asian monographs ; 437.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1868
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030055277
- Research Call Number
- JFF 21-621