The Tōkaidō Road offers a comparative study of the Tōkaidō road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. Throughout the Edo era, the Tōkaidō highway was the most important route of Japan and transportation was confined to foot travel. In 1889, the Tōkaidō Railway was established, at first paralleling and eventually almost eliminating the use of the highway. During both periods, the Tōkaidō was a popular topic of representation and was depicted in a variety of visual and literary media. After the installation of the railway in the Meiji era, the Tōkaidō was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and westernisation. Such representations were fundamental in shaping the Tōkaidō and the realm of travelling in the collective consciousness of the Japanese people.
Recenzijos
'Of great value for those interested in the history of travelling in Japan, and more specifically of travelling along the Tōkaidō.' - Society for Japanese Arts Newsletter
'What Treganou gives is a compendium of the culture and history of the Tōkaidō in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It is a helpful work that will encourage serious thinking about the range of issues it covers.' - Journal of School of Oriental and African Studies
'Jilly Traganou's Tokaido Road provides a valuable multidimensional perspective on what is arguably the most renowned thoroughfare in the world.' - Monumenta Nipponica 'Of great value for those interested in the history of traveling in Japan, and more specifically of traveling along the Tōkaidō.' - Society for Japanese Arts Newsletter
'What Treganou gives is a compendium of the culture andhistory of the Tōkaidō in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It is a helpful work that will encourage serious thinking about the range of issues it covers.' - Journal of School of Oriental and African Studies
List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary
1. Introduction
2.
Infrastructure and Cartography of the Tōkaidō in Macro 2.1. The Tōkaidō as a
Geopolitical Territory 2.2. Infrastructure upon the Tōkaidō Route 2.3. The
Tōkaidō's Cartography
3. Travelling Practices and Literary Tōkaidō 3.1. Road
Cosmology - The Road as a Microcosm 3.2. Travelling Practices of the Edo
Period 3.3. Literary Tōkaidō
4. Performance, Visuality and Imagination at the
Tōkaidō's Micro-Scale 4.1. Transportation-Stations: Spaces of Performance,
Spaces of Representation 4.2. Tōkaidō and Visuality
5. Conclusions and
Openings: The Tōkaidō as Medium of National Knowledge 5.1. National Knowledge
and Epistemology 5.2. History as Nostalgia, History as Play Bibliography Notes
Jilly Traganou currently teaches Architecture at the University of Texas. She has contributed to Japanese Capitals and Suburbanizing the Masses.
