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A valuable addition to the understanding of early modern publishing culture and geographical imagination. -- Radu Leca * Journal of Japanese Studies *

A valuable addition to the understanding of early modern publishing culture and geographical imagination. -- Radu Leca * Journal of Japanese Studies * Goree’s work is methodologically rigorous, insightful, and well researched in English and Japanese… Printing Landmarks is a terrific work of scholarship, and it should change how we read, cite, and understand meisho zue for many years to come. -- R. Keller Kimbrough * Monumenta Nipponica * Constitutes not only an important introduction to an underrepresented genre, but also a model for approaching the complex illustrated printed works of the Tokugawa period. …Goree’s book will no doubt be invaluable for specialists who must contend with this dense and complex material. …[This] book illustrates just how groundbreaking it was for a Tokugawa-period reader to enjoy virtual travel through meisho zue. This important study of meisho zue shows the broad-reaching possibilities of popular geography in print, shaping a common understanding of places near and far -- Quintana Heathman Scherer * Journal of Asian Studies * A tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on studies of literature, history, art history, cartography, and visual culture in order to create the first comprehensive account of meisho zue… The meticulousness and precision of Goree’s prose facilitates his presentation of documents that might otherwise appear obscure to modern readers, thereby rendering them as living texts. Perhaps the greatest virtue of Printing Landmarks is that it makes meisho zue readable in an intuitive way, thereby opening up an entire world of topographic literature that was previously inaccessible to nonspecialists. -- Pedro Bassoe * Journal of the American Oriental Society *

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Robert Goree is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Wellesley College.

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