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Printing Landmarks - Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan (Hardcover)
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Printing Landmarks - Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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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 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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