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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toyosawa, Nobuko (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 422.
Subjects:
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.