Imaginative mapping : landscape and Japanese identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras /
Through analysis of a growing sense of place and affective relationship between the land and its people, this book examines how the landscape shaped a crucial aspect of Japanese identity from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
[2019]
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
422. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Local topography in seventeenth-century Japan
- The "Country of the Deities"
- Mapping the capital
- Transformation of the spirits
- Philosophizing the divine country
- Geography of the divine nation
- Conclusion: Landscape and national history.