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Imaginative Mapping. Landscape and Japanese identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras
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SYSNO ASEP 0521922 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type Monograph Title Imaginative Mapping. Landscape and Japanese identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras Author(s) Toyosawa, Nobuko (OU-W) SAI, ORCID Issue data Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019 ISBN 978-0-674-24112-1 Series Harvard East Asian monographs Series number 422 Number of pages 305 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords national characteristics ; cultural landscapes ; geographical perception ; Japan Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support OU-W - RVO:68378009 UT WOS 000753063100001 Annotation Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. The book analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. These scholars saw landscapes as repositories of local history and identity, stressing Japan’s differences from the models of China and the West. By detailing the continuities and ruptures between a sense of shared cultural community that emerged in the seventeenth century and the modern nation state of the late nineteenth century, this study sheds new light on the significance of early modernity, one defined not by temporal order but rather by spatial diffusion of the concept of Japan. More precisely, the author argues that the circulation of guidebooks and other spatial narratives not only promoted further movement but also contributed to the formation of subjectivity by allowing readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan. The recurring claims to the landscape are evidence that it was the medium for the construction of Japan as a unified cultural body. Workplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2020
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