Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo - Softcover

Screech, Timon

 
9781789149555: Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

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Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture – but not everyone is aware of its past. 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 beautifully illustrated book presents important sites and features from the rich history of Edo, drawn from contemporary sources such as diaries, guidebooks and woodblock prints. These include the huge bridge on which the city was centred, the vast castle of the shogun, sumptuous Buddhist temples, bars, kabuki theatres and the Yoshiwara, Edo’s famous red-light district.

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Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many books, including Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700–1820 (2nd edn, Reaktion, 2009).

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9781789142334: Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

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ISBN 10:  1789142334 ISBN 13:  9781789142334
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2020
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