Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Envisioning the realm: administrative and commercial maps in the early modern period -- Annotating Japan: the reinvention of travel writing in the late seventeenth century -- Narrating Japan: travel and the writing of cultural difference in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Imagining Japan, inventing the world: foreign knowledge and fictional journeys in the eighteenth century -- Remapping Japan: satire, pleasure, and place in late Tokugawa fiction.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias-to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness.
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JSTOR
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22573/cttt1vv4
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Title
Mapping early modern Japan.
International Standard Book Number
0520232690
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ethnopsychology-- Japan.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Ethnopsychologie-- Japon.
Japonais.
Cartografie.
Civilization.
Ethnopsychology.
HISTORY-- Asia-- General.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
TRAVEL.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Japan, Civilization, 1600-1868.
Japon, Civilisation, 1600-1868.
Japan.
Japan., History of cartography., [literature], 2003.