Tokyo A Cultural History (Cityscapes)

Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

• Kyoto: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
• Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
• In Praise of Shadows
• Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity
• Tokyo: City and Architecture
• Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City; Two Volumes in One: LOW CITY, HIGH CITY and TOKYO RISING (Tuttle Classics)
• Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules that Make the Difference! (Third Edition)
• The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
• Tokyo Megacity
• The Inland Sea