Tokyo - A Cultural History

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Mansfield
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.06.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780195386349
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538634-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cityscapes (Hardcover); Cityscapes (Hardcover)
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous