The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan

BOOK-COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
The metaphorical road of the Tōkaidō: traveling and representation, traveling as representation......Page 17
Mobility and the Tōkaidō as scholarly subjects......Page 21
Structure of the book......Page 24
The Tōkaidō as a geopolitical territory......Page 27
Inland infrastructure in the Edo period......Page 29
The Tōkaidō as a highway......Page 32
Advocates and enemies......Page 34
The construction of the Tōkaidō railway......Page 37
Center and periphery relations after the establishment of the railway......Page 38
The Tōkaidō’s cartography......Page 40
Road-maps in the Edo period......Page 42
Popular and official road-maps......Page 50
Narrative itineraries—territorial maps......Page 57
Panorama......Page 59
Road-maps in the Meiji era......Page 62
Fusion of representational borders between Edo and Meiji road maps......Page 64
Railway charts......Page 67
Geographical railway maps......Page 69
Representational character in Meiji-era road cartography......Page 72
From absolute space to abstract space......Page 73
Symbolic geography......Page 78
Road cosmology—the road as a microcosm......Page 80
Reasons for traveling......Page 81
Aesthetes and recluses......Page 83
Pilgrims......Page 87
Processions to and from Edo......Page 91
Traveling practices of the Meiji era......Page 97
Time conceptions......Page 98
New travel attitudes and customs......Page 100
Modern pilgrims, tourists and weekenders......Page 101
Migrants to the urban centers......Page 104
Travel literatrue in the Edo period......Page 106
Travel diaries......Page 108
Dōchūki......Page 114
Fictional guidebooks......Page 116
Illustrated guidebooks......Page 149
Fusions between Meiji- and Edo-period literary forms......Page 154
Guidebooks and accounts of western travelers......Page 161
A geographical treatise: Nihon fūkeiron......Page 164
Popularized Tōkaidō: Tetsudō shōka......Page 169
Literary nostalgia......Page 174
Transportation-stations: spaces of performance, spaces of representation......Page 179
Physical and anthropological characteristics of post-stations......Page 180
Railway stations as border-sites: between performance and spectacle......Page 183
Front stage......Page 184
Back stage......Page 185
Pictorial Tōkaidō in the Edo period......Page 188
The Tōkaidō in the official arts of the Edo period......Page 190
The Tōkaidō in the popular arts of the Edo period......Page 196
Early Tōkaidō series......Page 198
Hiroshige’s Tōkaidō......Page 201
Collaborations, repetitions and imitations......Page 205
Multiple narratives in the Tōkaidō series......Page 216
Recurring characteristics in Edo-period travel representations......Page 218
Pictorial Tōkaidō in the Meiji era......Page 220
Recording reality through the lens of ukiyo-e......Page 222
The Tōkaidō in nihonga......Page 228
The Tōkaidō through western eyes......Page 229
The subject of the Tōkaidō through the prism of modern art......Page 233
Influences and anachronisms: from the west to Japan, from Japan to the west......Page 237
5 CONCLUSIONS AND OPENINGS......Page 240
National knowledge and epistemology......Page 241
Japan as history/Japan as nature......Page 243
Technology as expansion of nature......Page 244
Geography as national ideology......Page 245
Recasting history as progress......Page 248
History as nostalgia, history as play......Page 250
Tōkaidō Renaissance......Page 251
Terms......Page 255
NOTES......Page 259
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 273
INDEX......Page 291