15 Historical Landscapes of Osaka

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Japanese Names and Terms xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Visualizing the Realm: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
6. Introduction to Part I 6
7. Japan in the World
8. 1 Japan and a New-Found World 13
9. 2 The World from the Waterline 16
10. 3 Elusive Islands of Silver: Japan in the Early European Geographic Imagination 20
11. 4 Mapping the Margins of Japan 24
12. 5 The Creators and Historical Context of the Oldest Maps of the Ryukyu Kingdom 28
13. 6 The Introduction of Dutch Surveying Instruments in Japan 33
14. 7 The European Career of Ishikawa Ryu¯sen’s Map of Japan 37
15. 8 A New Map of Japan and Its Acceptance in Europe 41
16. Domestic Space
17. 9 The Arms and Legs of the Realm 44
18. 10 Visualizing the Political World through Provincial Maps 48
19. 11 Fixing Sacred Borders: Villagers, Monks, and Their Two Sovereign Masters 52
20. 12 Self-Portrait of a Village 56
21. II. Public Places, Sacred Spaces
22. Introduction to Part II 60
23. Mapping the City
24. 13 Characteristics of Premodern Urban Space 63
25. 14 Evolving Cartography of an Ancient Capital 66
26. 15 Historical Landscapes of Osaka 71
27. 16 The Urban Landscape of Early Edo in an East Asian Context 75
28. 17 Spatial Visions of Status 78
29. 18 The Social Landscape of Edo 81
30. 19 What Is a Street? 85
31. Sacred Sites and Cosmic Visions
32. 20 Locating Japan in a Buddhist World 89
33. 21 Picturing Maps: The “Rare and Wondrous” Bird’s-Eye Views of Kuwagata Keisai 93
34. 22 An Artist’s Rendering of the Divine Mount Fuji 98
35. 23 Rock of Ages: Traces of the Gods in Akita 102
36. 24 Cosmology and Science in Japan’s Last Buddhist World Map 105
37. Travelscapes
38. 25 Fun with Moral Mapping in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 108
39. 26 A Travel Map Adjusted to Urgent Circumstances 112
40. 27 Legendary Landscape at the Kitayama Palace 116
41. 28 New Routes through Old Japan 120
42. III. Modern Maps for Imperial Japan
43. Introduction to Part III 126
44. Defining the Borders
45. 29 Seeking Accuracy: The First Modern Survey of Japan’s Coast 129
46. 30 No Foreigners Allowed: The Shogunate’s Hydrographic Chart of the “Holy” Ise Bay 133
47. 31 Indigenous Knowledge in the Mapping of the Northern Frontier Regions 137
48. 32 Mamiya Rinzō and the Cartography of Empire 140
49. 33 Outcastes and Peasants on the Edge of Modernity 144
50. Transforming the City Scape
51. 34 Converging Lines: Yamakawa Kenjirō’s Fire Map of Tokyo 148
52. 35 Mapping Death and Destruction in 1923 151
53. 36 Rebuilding Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake 155
54. 37 Shinjuku 1931: A New Type of Urban Space 158
55. Managing an Empire
56. 38 Mapping the Hōjō Colliery Explosion of 1914 163
57. 39 Cultivating Progress in Colonial Taiwan 167
58. 40 Showcase Thoroughfares, Wretched Alleys: The Uneven Development of Colonial Seoul (Keijo¯) 170
59. 41 Imperial Expansion and City Planning: Visions for Datong in the 1930s 174
60. 42 A Two-Timing Map 178
61. 43 Visions of a New Order in the Asia-Pacific 182
62. IV. Still under Construction: Cartography and Technology since 1945
63. Introduction to Part IV 188
64. Up from the Ashes
65. 44 Blackened Cities, Blackened Maps 190
66. 45 The Occupied City 194
67. 46 Sacred Space on Postwar Fuji 199
68. 47 Tange Kenzō’s Proposal for Rebuilding Hiroshima 203
69. 48 Visions of the Good City in the Rapid Growth Period 207
70. Growing Pains in a Global Metropolis
71. 49 On the Road in Olympic-Era Tokyo 210
72. 50 Traversing Tokyo by Subway 214
73. 51 The Uses of a Free Paper Map in the Internet Age 218
74. 52 Tsukiji at the End of an Era 222
75. New Directions in the Digital Age
76. 53 Probabilistic Earthquake Hazard Maps 226
77. 54 Citizens’ Radiation Mapping after the Tsunami 230
78. 55 Run and Escape 234
79. 56 Postmortem Cartography: “Stillbirths” and the Meiji State 237
80. 57 Reconstructing Provincial Maps 242
81. 58 The Art of Making Oversize Graphic Maps 246
82. Epilogue 251
83. Acknowledgments 255
84. About the Authors 257
85. Index 267