Main entry:

Freedman, Alisa.

Title & Author:

Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.

Description:

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.

Summary:

Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. The author investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social fabric and artistic movements, giving rise to gender roles that have come to characterize modern Japan. She argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects of rapid change on the individual. She shows how prewar transport culture anticipates what is fascinating and frustrating about Tokyo today, providing insight into how people make themselves at home in the city.

ISBN:

9780804771443 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804771448 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804771450 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0804771456 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Japanese literature Japan Tokyo History and criticism.
Japanese literature 20th century History and criticism.
Commuting in literature.
Railroad travel in literature.
Commuting Social aspects Japan Tokyo History 20th century.
Railroad travel Social aspects Japan Tokyo History 20th century.
Local transit Social aspects Japan Tokyo History 20th century.
Littérature japonaise 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Voyages en train dans la littérature.
Commuting Social aspects.
Japanese literature.
Literature.
Local transit Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Literatur.
Japanisch.
Motiv.
Massenkultur.
Verkehr.
Tokyo (Japan) Social life and customs 1912-1945.
Tokyo (Japan) In literature.
Japan Tokyo.
Japan.
Tokio.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270958
Call No.: BIB 203890
Status: Available