Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Book 34)

by Stephen Mansfield

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  Cover

  Front Matter

  Title Page

  Publisher Information

  Foreword

  Preface & Acknowledgments

  Introduction

  Tokyo

  The Shell Mound

  A Goddess in the Nets

  The Warrior Poet

  Visions of a City

  The Citadel

  The Military City

  Southern Barbarians

  Seclusion

  Pax Tokugawa

  Swords and Ink Brushes

  Edo Culture

  Defining the EDOKKO

  Beauty and Desire

  Figments of Pleasure

  The Gilded Age

  The Dog Shogun

  Affluence and Patronage

  Red Snow

  The Literary City

  Graphic Rites of Spring

  Neo-Confucian Doctrines

  The Art City

  Edo Theatrics

  Apex of the New Order

  A Riverside Hermitage

  The Wit of Edo

  Black Snow

  The Ripening City

  Kabuki Ascendant

  Woodblock Art

  The Garden City

  Koishikawa Korakuen

  Hama Rikyu

  Kameido-Tenjin

  Garden of the Six Principles of Poetry

  Kiyosumi-teien

  A Literary Garden

  Shadows over the Bay

  Upheaval and Millenarian Beliefs

  Meiji Imperium

  Restoration and Renewal

  The New Age

  A Foreign Settlement

  City Transformations

  Fashions and Fads

  Memoirs of a City

  The Hybrid City

  The Rokumeikan: Western Tastes

  Mitsubishi Meadow and London Block

  The Cloud Surpassing Pavilion: An Asakusa Wonder

  Tokyo Slums

  Eminent Foreigners

  Boston Brahmins

  Distinguished Japanese

  New Civilization

  The Willow World

  Geisha in Rivalry

  The Performers

  Nostalgia, Meiji Realities

  The Nihonga School

  Nature and Nostalgia

  An Imperial Shroud

  Taisho Style

  Magazines and Movements

  Blue-Stocking

  Art and Experiment

  Images in Paint and Print

  Kafu’s Tokyo

  Tanizaki’s Naomi

  Asakusa: The New Hedonism

  Ginza Chic

  Bathing in the River

  A Time of Calamities

  Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

  The Dark Corridor

  Patriotic Insurrections

  Imperial Metropolis

  Polar Cities

  The Wasteland

  Voice of the Crane

  Tokyo Redux

  Censoring Culture

  Among the Ruins

  Black Markets

  The Decadents

  Pulp Culture

  Razing the Yoshiwara

  A Film View of the City

  Growth and Resurgence

  Tokyo Olympiad

  Remodelling Tokyo

  Dream Messenger

  Traces of Edo

  Sumida Fire Flowers

  River Chronicles

  The Invisible Goddess

  In Ghostly Tokyo

  Rituals, Cults and Portents

  Hall of Dreams

  The Organic Maze

  Surface Tensions

  The Scripted City

  Manga Metro

  Another New Tokyo

  Back Matter

  Further Reading

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