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Author: Andreas Marks ,
Laura Allen ,
Ann Wehmeyer
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dimensions:
Width: 25.40cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 30.50cm
Weight: 1.746kg
ISBN: 9780813060217
ISBN 10: 0813060214
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Performs a vital service to scholars of Japanese culture and history, media studies, art historians, and anybody interested in the cultural history of travel, roads, and transportation. It reminds us that travel is never just about getting from one place to another. --Museum Anthropology Review
A beautifully produced volume. . . . Present[s] to a western readership what must be the most detailed and complete analysis yet in English of one of the key woodblock print series inspired by the Tokaido theme. --East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Performs a vital service to scholars of Japanese culture and history, media studies, art historians, and anybody interested in the cultural history of travel, roads, and transportation. It reminds us that travel is never just about getting from one place to another. --Museum Anthropology Review
A beautifully produced volume. . . . Present[s] to a western readership what must be the most detailed and complete analysis yet in English of one of the key woodblock print series inspired by the Tokaido theme. --East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Performs a vital service to scholars of Japanese culture and history, media studies, art historians, and anybody interested in the cultural history of travel, roads, and transportation. It reminds us that travel is never just about getting from one place to another. --Museum Anthropology Review A pleasure to read. . . . An invitation to a place you haven't been, but can still glimpse through its pages. --Journal of Folklore Research
-Performs a vital service to scholars of Japanese culture and history, media studies, art historians, and anybody interested in the cultural history of travel, roads, and transportation. It reminds us that travel is never just about getting from one place to another.---Museum Anthropology Review
Author Information
Laura Allen is curator of Japanese art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the coeditor of The Printer's Eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection. Ann Wehmeyer is associate professor of Japanese and linguistics at the University of Florida, USA and the translator of Motoori Norinaga's Kojiki-den, Book 1. Andreas Marks is head of the Japanese and Korean Art Department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the author of Kunisada's T?kaid?: Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints.
