An edition of Cartographic Japan
(2016)
Cartographic Japan
a history in maps
by Kären Wigen, Fumiko Sugimoto, and Cary Karacas
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Cartography, History, Science, japan, Maps, Historical geographyPlaces
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Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
2016, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
Japan in a new-found world / Joseph LOH
The world from the waterline / Peter D. SHAPINSKY
Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination / OKA Mihoko
Mapping the margins of Japan / Ronald P. TOBY
The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom / WATANABE Miki
The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan / SATOH Ken'ichi
The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan / Marcia YONEMOTO
A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe / MATSUI Yōko
The arms and legs of the realm / Constantine N. VAPORIS
Visualizing the political world through provincial maps / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters / SUGIMOTO Fumiko
Self-portrait of a village / KOMEIE Taisaku
Characteristics of premodern urban space / TAMAI Tetsuo
Evolving cartography of an ancient capital / UESUGI Kazuhiro
Historical landscapes of Osaka / UESUGI Kazuhiro
The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context / TAMAI Tetsuo
Spatial visions of status / Ronald P. TOBY
The social landscape of Edo / Paul WALEY
What is a street? / Mary Elizabeth BERRY
Locating Japan in a Buddhist world / D. Max MOERMAN
Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai / Henry D. SMITH II
An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji / MIYAZAKI Fumiko
Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita / Anne WALTHALL
Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map / Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century / Robert GOREE
A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances / Kären WIGEN and Sayoko SAKAKIBARA
Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace / Nicolas FIÉVÉ
New routes through old Japan / Roderick WILSON
Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast / SUZUKI Junko
No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay / SUZUKI Junko
Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions / Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI
Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire / Brett L. WALKER
Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity / Daniel BOTSMAN
Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo / Steven WILLS
Mapping death and destruction in 1923 / J. Charles SCHENCKING
Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake / André SORENSEN
Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space / Henry D. SMITH II
Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 / Brett L. WALKER
Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan / Philip C. BROWN
Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) / Todd A. HENRY
Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s / Carola HEIN
A two-timing map / Catherine L. PHIPPS
Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific / David FEDMAN
Blackened cities, blackened maps / Cary KARACAS and David FEDMAN
The occupied city / Cary KARACAS
Sacred space on postwar Fuji / Andrew BERNSTEIN
Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima / Carola HEIN
Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period / André SORENSEN
On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo / Bruce SUTTMEIER
Traversing Tokyo by subway / Alisa FREEDMAN
The uses of a free paper map in the internet age / Susan Paige TAYLOR
Tsukiji at the end of an era / Theodore C. BESTOR
Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps / Gregory SMITS
Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami / Jilly TRAGANOU
Run & escape! / SATOH Ken'ichi
Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state / Fabian DRIXLER
Reconstructing provincial maps / NAKAMURA Yūsuke
The art of making oversize graphic maps / ARAI Kei.
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