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'sCityscapesseries, 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.
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
![Tokyo A Cultural History [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/3/4/3/2_962950.jpg "Tokyo A Cultural History [Hardcover] xxx")