Tokyo A Cultural HistoryOxford University Press, USA, 2009 - 268 páginas 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. |
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THE SHELL MOUND EARLY HUMAN SETTLEMENT TO MILITARY CAPITAL | 1 |
THE CITADEL 15901638 | 9 |
EDO CULTURE THE FLOWERING MARGINS 16381707 | 25 |
THE RIPENING CITY 17071868 | 63 |
MEIJI IMPERIUM 18681912 | 87 |
TAISHO STYLE 19121926 | 143 |
A TIME OF CALAMITIES 19231945 | 171 |
TOKYO REDUX 19451970S | 199 |
DREAM MESSANGER 1970S | 225 |
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