Imaginative Mapping : Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras

Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation spatial narratives allowed readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan.

• | : Nobuko Toyosawa
• | Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 322 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674241126
• | ISBN-13: 9780674241121