Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan

The Shogun’s Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657–1855

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvGerald Groemer

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This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors to allow Edo, or at least some of the voices that constituted Edo, to do most of the speaking.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-11
Mått148 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt633 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor372
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811373756

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Gerald Groemer is Professor of Japanese and Western Musicology at the University of Yamanashi in Kōfu, Japan. His previous books, both in Japanese and in English, have treated chiefly early modern Japanese culture, especially street performers and blind itinerant musicians. He has been awarded the Tanabe Prize twice for his Japanese-language monographs and the Koziumi Fumio Prize for his lifetime achievement.

Introduction: Reading the Edo Zuihitsu.- An Eastern Stirrup: The Great Fire of 1657 (Musashi abumi).- Tales of Long, Long Ago: Recollections of Seventeenth-Century Edo (Mukashi-mukashi monogatari).- The River of Time: Life in Eighteenth-century Edo (Asukagawa).- The Spider’s Reel: Traces of the Tenmei Period (1781-1789) (Kumo no itomaki).- Disaster Days: The Great Earthquake of 1855 (Nai no hinami).