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| Book Reviews: Kyoto's Renaissance: Ancient Capital for Modern Japan. Edited by John Breen, Maruyama Hiroshi, and Takagi Hiroshi | ||
| 作者 | Fuess, Harald (著) |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.19 n.1 Special Issue |
| 出版日期 | 2022.01 |
| 頁次 | 162 - 164 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.cambridge.org/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Kyoto has come to epitomize authentic Japanese historical culture and is one of the world's most well-known tourist destinations. Kyoto is now imagined as the place where Japanese tradition is preserved in contrast to modern cosmopolitan conglomerations like Tokyo and Osaka. Kyoto is also not perceived as a marginal historical town like Nara or Takayama. It seems to have found a third path between the destructive vitality of the modern age and the stifling restraints of backward-looking nostalgia. Many tourists come in search of the elegance of a former imperial age. They discover Golden and Silver Pavillions and a park with walled enclaves where emperors once resided. Numerous temples open to visitors also tell the tale of their founding legends, such as their historical support by some emperor or high-ranking court family. Kyoto indeed exudes antiquity. Little is made of the fact that in 1864 a fire devastated most of the town and what we see today as typical for Kyoto has largely been crafted since the Meiji Period. In short, Kyoto not only is a modern construction physically, but may even be so in the very way people have insisted on constructing Kyoto's antiquity. The contribution of this edited volume is to sketch the early modern to modern transition of Kyoto during the first decades of Meiji when it was in search of a distinctive identity and purpose in the emerging urban landscape of a modernizing state. In the Introduction, the editors give a comprehensive overview of Western scholarship on Kyoto and introduce the most important Japanese urban histories. They show how the overwhelming academic interest in the town has been focused on the times leading up to the Edo period, while few scholars so far have examined modern Kyoto. |
| ISSN | 14795914 (P); 14795922 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1479591420000613 |
| 點閱次數 | 125 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.05.17 |
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