ABSTRACT
Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|111 pages
Power and the Spatial Imprints of Authority
chapter 1|26 pages
Castles in Kyoto at the Close of the Age of Warring States
The Urban Fortresses of the Ashikaga Shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki
chapter 4|21 pages
Metaphors of the Metropolis
Architectural and Artistic Representations of the Identity of Edo
part 2|129 pages
Memory and the Changing Passage of Space
part 3|111 pages
Place Between Future and Past
chapter 10|26 pages
The Past in Tokyo's Future
Kōda Rohan's Thoughts on Urban Reform and the New Citizen in Ikkoku no shuto (One nation's capital
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