Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps 9780226073057

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Автор: Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary
Название: Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
Перевод названия: Карен Виген: Картография Японии.
ISBN: 9780226073057
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

История Азии

Исторические карты и атласы

ISBN-10: 022607305X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 1.46 кг.
Дата издания: 29.01.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations
Размер: 295 x 230 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A history in maps
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet exquisite scrolls depicting sea and land routes. Today, Japanese people are zealous producers and consumers of cartography, and maps are an integral part of daily life.

But this was not always the case: a thousand years ago, maps were solely a privilege of the ruling elite in Japan. Only in the past four hundred years has Japanese cartography truly taken off, and between the dawn of Japans cartographic explosion and today, the nations society and landscape have undergone major transformations. At every point, maps have documented those monumental changes. Cartographic Japan offers a rich introduction to the resulting treasure trove, with close analysis of one hundred maps from the late 1500s to the present day, each one treated as a distinctive window onto Japans tumultuous history.

Forty-seven distinguished contributors--hailing from Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia--uncover the meanings behind a key selection of these maps, situating them in historical context and explaining how they were made, read, and used at the time. With more than one hundred gorgeous full-color illustrations, Cartographic Japan offers an enlightening tour of Japans magnificent cartographic archive.

Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary