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Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan: The Shogun’s Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657–1855

Autor Gerald 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.  These voices become audible in the work of five Japanese eye-witness observers, who notated what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, experienced, and remembered.  “An Eastern Stirrup,” presents a vivid portrait of the great conflagration of 1657 that nearly wiped out the city.  “Tales of Long Long Ago,” details seventeenth-century warrior-class ways as depicted by a particularly conservative samurai.  “The River of Time,” describes the city and its flourishing cultural and economic development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The Spider’s Reel” looks back at both the attainments and calamities of Edo in the 1780s.  Finally, “Disaster Days,” offers a meticulous account of Edo life among the ruins of the catastrophic 1855 tremor.  Read in sequence, these five pieces offer a unique “insider’s perspective” on the city of Edo and early modern Japan.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811373787
ISBN-10: 9811373787
Pagini: 372
Ilustrații: XXIX, 372 p. 109 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

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).

Notă biografică

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.


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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.  These voices become audible in the work of five Japanese eye-witness observers, who notated what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, experienced, and remembered.  “An Eastern Stirrup,” presents a vivid portrait of the great conflagration of 1657 that nearly wiped out the city.  “Tales of Long Long Ago,” details seventeenth-century warrior-class ways as depicted by a particularly conservative samurai.  “The River of Time,” describes the city and its flourishing cultural and economic development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The Spider’s Reel” looks back at both the attainments and calamities of Edo in the 1780s.  Finally, “Disaster Days,” offers a meticulous account of Edo life among the ruins of the catastrophic 1855 tremor.  Read in sequence, these five pieces offer a unique “insider’s perspective” on the city of Edo and early modern Japan.
 


Caracteristici

Examines the old historical area of Edo, where Tokyo now stands Focuses on the literatary voice of eye witnesses and the resulting 'zuithitsu' chronicling Offers a unique insight into Japanese social, cultural, and political history, and the development of what was at the time the largest city in the world