Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan The Shogun's Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657-1855 /

• Main Author: Groemer, Gerald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Japan-History.; Oriental literature.; Cities and towns-History.; History of Japan.; Asian Literature.; Urban History.

This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors to allow Edo, or at least some of the voices that constituted Edo, to do most of the speaking. These...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Reading the Edo Zuihitsu
• An Eastern Stirrup: The Great Fire of 1657 (Musashi abumi)
• Tales of Long, Long Ago: Recollections of Seventeenth-Century Edo (Mukashi-mukashi monogatari)
• The River of Time: Life in Eighteenth-century Edo (Asukagawa)
• The Spider's Reel: Traces of the Tenmei Period (1781-1789) (Kumo no itomaki)
• Disaster Days: The Great Earthquake of 1855 (Nai no hinami).