Japanese capitals in historical perspective : place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo / edited by Nicholas Fiévé and Paul Waley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo : urban histories in parallels and tangents / Paul Waley and Nicolas Fiévé -- pt. 1. Power and the spatial imprints of authority -- Castles in Kyoto at the close of the age of warring states : the urban fortresses of the Ashikaga Shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki / Takahashi Yasuo, with Matthew Stavros -- Social discrimination and architectural freedom in the pleasure district of Kyoto in early modern Japan / Nicolas Fiévé -- Urbanisation and the nature of the Tokugawa hegemony / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey -- Metaphors of the metropolis : architectural and artistic representations of the identity of Edo / William H. Coaldrake -- pt. 2. Memory and the chaning passage of space -- Kyoto's famous places : collective memory and 'monuments' in the Tokugawa period / Nicolas Fiévé -- Representing mobility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan / Jilly Traganou -- By ferry to factory : crossing Tokyo's great river into a new world / Paul Waley -- From a shogunal city to a life city : Tokyo between two fin-de-siècles / Mikako Iwatake -- Time perception, or the ineluctable aging of material in architecture / Murielle Hladik -- pt. 3. Place between future and past -- The past in Tokyo's future : Kōda Rohan's thoughts on urban reform and the new citizen in Ikkoku no shuto (One nation's capital) / Evelyn Schulz -- Visionary plans and planners : Japanese traditions and Western influences / Carola Hein -- Kyoto and the preservation of urban landscapes / Yamasaki Masafumi, with Paul Waley -- Preservation and revitalization of machiya in Kyoto / Kinoshita Ryōichi -- Conclusion : power, memory, and place / Paul Waley -- Glossary.

Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities.

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