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Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces, and Mobility
- 1.0499148 - OÚ 2019 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Toyosawa, Nobuko
Constructing the Tokugawa Spatial Imaginary: Kaibara Ekiken and His Revival of Fudoki
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Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces, and Mobility. London: Routledge, 2016 - (Divall, C.), s. 125-138. Studies for the international society for cultural history, 7. ISBN 978-1-84893-525-9
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Keywords : Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) * Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) * Tokugawa period (1603-1868) * early-modern Japan * print culture * travel
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
This chapter reappraises a mode of ‘travel writing’ developed by the early-modern Japanese scholar Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714). Ekiken’s writings about space and topography, which I shall call his ‘spatial’ writings, went well beyond the existing literary genre of travel literature. By drawing on the antiquarian style of fudoki, his writings obtained a cultural and thus a political legitimacy making them fundamentally different from other contemporary travel literature, including travel diaries and traditional famous-place writings
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