Printing Landmarks : Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan /
Goree, Robert,
Printing Landmarks : Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan / Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan Robert Goree. - 1 online resource. - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021 . - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The reader as virtual traveler -- The documentation and display of place -- The book as map -- A geography of abundance -- The Rit�o network and the long shadow of Miyako meisho zue.
"Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience palpable encounters with places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity"--
1684176263 9780674247871 0674247876 9781684176267
10.1163/9781684176267. DOI
22573/cats5211834 JSTOR
Akisato, Rit�o, active 1780-1814. Miyako meisho zue.
1600-1868
Books and reading--History.--Japan
Cultural geography--Japan.
Historic sites--Maps--Early works to 1800.--Japan
Publishers and publishing--History.--Japan
Thematic maps--History.--Japan
Books and reading.
Cultural geography.
Historic sites--Maps.
Historiography.
Publishers and publishing.
Thematic maps.
Travel.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Japan--History--Historiography.--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Japan.
Early works.
History.
DS808
952
Printing Landmarks : Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan / Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan Robert Goree. - 1 online resource. - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021 . - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The reader as virtual traveler -- The documentation and display of place -- The book as map -- A geography of abundance -- The Rit�o network and the long shadow of Miyako meisho zue.
"Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period's most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience palpable encounters with places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity"--
1684176263 9780674247871 0674247876 9781684176267
10.1163/9781684176267. DOI
22573/cats5211834 JSTOR
Akisato, Rit�o, active 1780-1814. Miyako meisho zue.
1600-1868
Books and reading--History.--Japan
Cultural geography--Japan.
Historic sites--Maps--Early works to 1800.--Japan
Publishers and publishing--History.--Japan
Thematic maps--History.--Japan
Books and reading.
Cultural geography.
Historic sites--Maps.
Historiography.
Publishers and publishing.
Thematic maps.
Travel.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Japan--History--Historiography.--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Japan.
Early works.
History.
DS808
952