


Japan - History - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. The Tkaid road : traveling and representation in Edo and Meiji Japan / Jilly. Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and indexĬommunication and traffic - Japan - Tōkaidō - History The Tôkaidô Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan Traganou, Jilly on. This book, the first to examine the Tokaido's imagery from an academic perspective, aims to highlight how such representations were fundamental in shaping the Tokaido and the realm of traveling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people."-Jacket During both periods, the Tokaido was a popular topic of representation and was depicted in a variety of visual and literary media. "The Tokaido Road offers a comparative study of the Tokaido road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras.

Conclusions and openings : the Tōkaidō as medium of national knowledge Performance, visuality and imagination at the Tōkaidō's microscale - 5. Traveling practices and literary Tōkaidō - 4. Infrastructure and cartography of the Tōkaidō in macro - 3. 1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsġ.
