Mapping Early Modern Japan

This book is "a history of mapping as an idea," not a cartographic history, Marcia Yonemoto warns us at the outset. Her intent is to identify "the elusive processes by which people came to name, to know, and to interpret the natural and human worlds in which they lived" (pp. 1-2). Her more specific objective is to capture the Tokugawa geographic consciousness or spatial sensibilities as they are represented in maps as well as texts, especially travel accounts, both real and imaginary. Yonemoto aims to show how writers, mapmakers, and artists helped shape the Japanese mapping of place and its relationship with identity and culture

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