Kyoto - An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Stavros is a historian of early Japan at the University of Sydney. Klappentext Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Through a synthesis of textual, pictorial, and archeological sources, this work sheds light on Kyoto's premodern urban landscape with the aim of opening up new ways of thinking about key aspects of premodern Japanese history. Zusammenfassung Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Through a synthesis of textual! pictorial! and archeological sources! this work sheds light on Kyoto's premodern urban landscape with the aim of opening up new ways of thinking about key aspects of premodern Japanese history.

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• Authors: Matthew Stavros, Matthew/ Knapp Stavros
• Assisted by: Ronald G Knapp (Editor), Ronald G. Knapp (Editor), Xing Ruan (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780824867881
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6788-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Me; Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture; Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture; Spatial Habitus: Making and Me
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous