Tokyo before Tokyo : power and magic in the Shogun's city of Edo / Timon Screech.

Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called 'Edo,' was the locus of Japanese trade, economics and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan's modern capital. This illustrated book presents important sites and features from the rich...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Screech, Timon (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2020.
Subjects:
Edojō (Tokyo, Japan) > Pictorial works.
Edojō (Tokyo, Japan)
Tokyo (Japan) > History > 1600-1868.
Tokyo (Japan) > In art.
Japan > Tokyo.
1600-1868
Art.
History.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
In art.
Art.
History.
Physical Description:238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The ideal city
  • 2. The centre of the Shogun's realm
  • 3. Edo as sacred space
  • 4. Reading Edo Castle
  • 5. The city's poetic presence
  • 6. A Trip to the Yoshiwara - Epilogue:From Edo to Tokyo.