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Kyoto’s Renaissance : Ancient Capital for Modern Japan / ed. by John Breen, Maruyama Hiroshi, Takagi Hiroshi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781898823933
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952/.1864 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: In Search of the Kyoto Modern – -- PART 1: Emperor, Rites, and Religion -- Chapter 1: The Emperor System and Kyoto: Images of the Ancient Capital -- Chapter 2: Performing History: Festivals and Pageants in the Making of Modern Kyoto -- Chapter 3: Buddhism and Society in Modern Kyoto -- PART 2: Urban Spaces, Local Communities, and Cityscapes -- Chapter 4: The Modern Reorganization of Urban Space and Kyoto’s Historicity -- Chapter 5: The Eleventh-Centenary of the Founding of Heian and the Heian Shrine -- Chapter 6: Kyoto’s Forest Policy: Scenic Beauty and Urban Fringe Forests -- PART 3: Industry, Arts, and Craftsmanship -- Chapter 7: Transforming Early Meiji Kyoto: Towards an“Industrial City” -- Chapter 8: Nihonga in Kyoto at the Dawn of the Modern Era -- Chapter 9: Trends in Modern Kyō-yaki Pottery: On Design in the Meiji Period -- The Contributors -- Index
Summary: Draws on archive of material, a first in English to take an in-depth look at Kyoto’s modern transformation – its reinvention after ‘collapse’ (Meiji Restoration) and relocation of the imperial court to Tokyo. Includes: introduction, chapters on notable historical elements that sustain Kyoto as a quintessentially modern ‘ancient capital’ today.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: In Search of the Kyoto Modern – -- PART 1: Emperor, Rites, and Religion -- Chapter 1: The Emperor System and Kyoto: Images of the Ancient Capital -- Chapter 2: Performing History: Festivals and Pageants in the Making of Modern Kyoto -- Chapter 3: Buddhism and Society in Modern Kyoto -- PART 2: Urban Spaces, Local Communities, and Cityscapes -- Chapter 4: The Modern Reorganization of Urban Space and Kyoto’s Historicity -- Chapter 5: The Eleventh-Centenary of the Founding of Heian and the Heian Shrine -- Chapter 6: Kyoto’s Forest Policy: Scenic Beauty and Urban Fringe Forests -- PART 3: Industry, Arts, and Craftsmanship -- Chapter 7: Transforming Early Meiji Kyoto: Towards an“Industrial City” -- Chapter 8: Nihonga in Kyoto at the Dawn of the Modern Era -- Chapter 9: Trends in Modern Kyō-yaki Pottery: On Design in the Meiji Period -- The Contributors -- Index

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Draws on archive of material, a first in English to take an in-depth look at Kyoto’s modern transformation – its reinvention after ‘collapse’ (Meiji Restoration) and relocation of the imperial court to Tokyo. Includes: introduction, chapters on notable historical elements that sustain Kyoto as a quintessentially modern ‘ancient capital’ today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)