Tokyo: A Cultural History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195386349)

Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

Author: Stephen Mansfield
ISBN-10: 0195386345
ISBN-13: 9780195386349
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d