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House and Home in Modern Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

House and Home in Modern Japan

A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased t...

Tokyo Vernacular
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Tokyo Vernacular

Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to view historicism in the postindustrial con...

Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 836

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1913
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Tokyo Before Tokyo
  • Language: en

Tokyo Before Tokyo

  • Categories: Art

A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun’s city that became modern Tokyo. Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture—but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called Edo, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan’s modern capital. This beautifully illustrated book presents important sites and features from the rich history of Edo, taken from contemporary sources such as diaries, guidebooks, and woodblock prints. These include the huge bridge on which the city was centered; the vast castle of the Shogun; sumptuous Buddhist temples, bars, kabuki theaters, and Yoshiwara—the famous red-light district.

Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1900
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bureau of Fisheries Document
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 684

Bureau of Fisheries Document

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1930
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year ... with Appendixes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 684
Field Operations of the Division of Soils
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Field Operations of the Division of Soils

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1900
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  • Publisher: Unknown

With accompanying papers by assistants in charge of field parties.

Soil Survey Field Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Soil Survey Field Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1906
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618

Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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