TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goree,Robert
TI  - Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokogawa Japan 
T2  - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021
SN  - 1684176263
AV  - DS808 
U1  - 952 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill | Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Akisato, Rit�o,
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Maps
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Thematic maps
KW  - fast
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Travel
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Japan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
KW  - Early works
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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