Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History by Stephen Mansfield (English) Paperback

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Tokyo is a vibrant city where the cultures of the East and the West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms. The book traces the cultural and literary history of Tokyo from an obscure fishing village to one of the largest metropolises in the world.

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Tokyo is a vibrant city where the cultures of the East and the West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms. This book traces the cultural and literary history of Tokyo from an obscure fishing village to one of the largest metropolises in the world.

Author Biography

Stephen Mansfield is an author and photojournalist who has been living on the edges of Tokyo since the late 1980s.

Table of Contents

* City of Literature, Theatre and Art: The print masters Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro; the Kabuki theatre; authors Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, Murukami Haruki; foreign writers Angela Carter, William Gibson and Donald Richie. * City of Architecture: From the fortifications of Edo Castle, great temples and shrines, via the western hybrids of the Meiji era to the post-modernist skyscrapers, giant neon screens and digitalized surfaces of today's city. * City of Calamities: The great fires of the Edo period; floods, famines and typhoons; the 1923 Earthquake, coups and rising militarism in the 1930s; the fire bombings of the Second World War; the 1995 subway gas attack by members of a death cult and the fatalism of residents living on one of the earth's largest fault lines.

Review

'Tokyo's cultural history, which is what Mansfield so splendidly serves us, is a template of its times, and in offering it, this book joins the best. Scholarly but packed, pungent and personal, it gives us the new key to the city.' --Japan Times

Details ISBN1904955517 Author Stephen Mansfield Pages 256 Publisher Signal Books Ltd Year 2009 ISBN-10 1904955517 ISBN-13 9781904955511 Format Paperback Imprint Signal Books Ltd Subtitle A Cultural and Literary History Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 952.135 Illustrations 30 illustrations Publication Date 2009-01-27 Series Cities of the Imagination Short Title Tokyo Language English UK Release Date 2009-01-27 AU Release Date 2009-01-27 NZ Release Date 2009-01-27 Audience General We've got this

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