Entrée principale:

Naitō, Akira, 1932-2012.

Titre et auteur:

Edo, the city that became Tokyo = 江戶の町 : an illustrated history / [by]Akira Naito ; [illustrated by]Kazuo Hozumi ; translated, adapted and introduced by H. Mack Horton. Edo, the city that became Tokyo : an illustrated history / Akira Naito ; illustrations by Kazuo Hozumi ; translated, adapted, and introduced by H. Mack Horton.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Tokyo : Kodansha International, 2003.

Description:

211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Edo, the city that became Tokyo -- Primeval Edo -- Ōta Dōkan's Edo castle -- Tokugawa Ieyasu's arrival in Edo -- Principles of premodern city planning -- Construction begins -- The layout of subdivisions -- Bustling Dōsanbori -- The Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate -- A spiral plan for the new city -- Improving Edo harbor -- Quarrying stone in Izu province -- Cutting lumber in the Kiso mountains -- Transporting lumber downstream -- Transport within the city -- Building the stone walls of Edo Castle -- Designing a keep complex -- Building the great keep -- The Osaka campaigns -- The death of Tokugawa Ieyasu -- Expanding the castle periphery -- Rebuilding the main compound and the great keep -- Completing the new outer canal and a third great keep -- Edo Castle's main compound -- The development of the castle keep -- The Daimyo Kōji district -- Warrior mansions -- League markers and waystations -- Edo harbor -- The fish market -- The water supply -- Houses of the townspeople -- Artisan districts -- The Edo cityscape -- Merchant districts -- Gates, watchmen, and notice boards -- A bustling religious district-Sensōji Temple -- Kan'eiji Temple in Ueno -- The great festivals at Sannōsha and Kanda Myōjin shrines -- Bathhouses and the pleasure quarter -- The Kabuki Theater -- Gangs -- The great Meireki fire -- The destruction of the castle keep -- "Fires and fights are the flowers of Edo" -- Taking the measure of a great city -- Rebuilding Edo Castle -- Rebuilding the warrior and religious districts -- Rebuilding the townspeople's districts -- Urban growth -- Ryōgokubashi Bridge -- The 808 districts of great Edo -- The Genroku era -- Ichikawa Danjūrō and the growth of Edo Kabuki -- The poet Bashō -- The Yushima Seidō Confucian Temple -- Japan's first observatory -- The Kyōhō reforms -- Public health -- Bringing nature back into the city -- Fire brigades -- Fireproof architecture -- The changing face of the city -- Tenement life -- "Children of Edo" -- The urban metabolism: water systems and sewers -- The Kansei rustication -- Academies and temple schools -- The Bunka and Bunsei eras -- The Ryōgoku river festival -- Sumo wrestling and sideshows -- New directions in the theater -- From restaurant teahouses to noodle stalls -- New Yoshiwara and "hill spots" -- From beauties and actors to cartoons -- Dutch studies -- Popular deities -- Baths and barbers of the floating world -- Great Edo traffic jams -- Demarcating the city -- The four waystations of Edo -- Urban congestion -- Evils of city life -- The arrival of Commodore Perry's black ships -- Natural disasters -- Urban unrest -- The surrender of Edo castle.
Colophon in Japanese.

ISBN:

4770027575
9784770027573

Sujet:

City planning Japan Tokyo History Pictorial works.
Urbanisme Japon T*oky*o Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
City planning
Tokyo (Japan) History 1600-1868 Juvenile literature.
T*oky*o (Japon) Histoire 1600-1868 Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Tōkyō (Japon) Histoire 1600-1868 Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Japan Tokyo

Classification/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Juvenile works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Vedettes secondaires:

Hozumi, Kazuo, 1930- illustrator.
Horton, H. Mack, translator, adapter, writer of introduction.

Edo, the city that became Tokyo = 江戶の町 : an illustrated history / [by]Akira Naito ; [illustrated by]Kazuo Hozumi ; translated, adapted and introduced by H. Mack Horton.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 228816
Cote: DS896.62 .N33 2003
Statut: Disponible