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Tokyo Before Tokyo

Tokyo Before Tokyo

Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo

by Timon Screech
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2020
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Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities and the center 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 civilisation 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, taken 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 Yoshiwara - the famous red-light district.

ISBN:
9781789142334
9781789142334
Category:
History of architecture
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Reaktion Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
222x171x28mm
Weight:
0.77kg
Timon Screech

Timon Screech is Professor in the History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and, concurrently, Permanent Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo. He is the author of many books including Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820 (2nd Edition Reaktion, 2009).

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