Synopses & Reviews
Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.
About the Author
Stephen Mansfield is a resident of Tokyo and the author of Tokyo: Eyewitness Travel Guide.
Table of Contents
Preface
Ch 1: The Eastern Province
Ch 2: Building the Citadel
Ch 3: Edo Culture
Ch 4: The Water City
Ch 5: The Eastern Capital
Ch 6: Taisho Style
Ch 7: A Time of Calamities
Ch 8: Occupation to Olympics
Ch 9: The Megacity
Further Reading