Mapping Early Modern Japan

Author	: Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Total Pages	: 252
Release	: 2003-04-21
ISBN-10	: 9780520232693
ISBN-13	: 0520232690
Rating	: 4/5 (93 Downloads)

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Download or read book Mapping Early Modern Japan written by Marcia Yonemoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This is a book about "geographical imagination" through the prism of maps, travel accounts, fiction, and other cultural works that helped fashion understandings of space and place in early modern Japan.

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