Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early EDO and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention

by Morgan Pitelka

Book Overview

The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that considers Kyoto on its own terms as a historic city with a changing identity.

Examining cultural production in the city of Kyoto in two periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367026759
• ISBN13: 9780367026752
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"