Kyoto, Tokyo: A Culture History

Kyoto

A Cultural History

John Dougill

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ISBN13: 9780195301380ISBN10: 0195301382 Paperback, 272 pages

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Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless reminders of a proud past. John Dougill explores this most venerable of Japanese cities, revealing the spirit of place and the individuals that have shaped its often dramatic history. Courtiers and courtesans, poets and priests, samurai and geisha people the pages of his account. Covering twelve centuries in all, the book not only provides a historical overview but also brings to life the cultural magnificence of the city of "Purple Hills and Crystal Streams."

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272 pages; 35 line illus. & maps; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-530138-0ISBN10: 0-19-530138-2

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John Dougill is Associate Professor of English at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. He is the author of Oxford in English Literature.

Tokyo A Cultural History

Stephen Mansfield

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ISBN13: 9780195386332ISBN10: 0195386337 Paperback, 288 pages

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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.

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288 pages; 10 lines; 5 1/2 X 8 1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-538633-2ISBN10: 0-19-538633-7