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Tokyo from Edo to Showa

The Emergence of the World's Greatest City

Tokyo from Edo to Showa
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Author Edward Seidensticker
Foreword Paul Waley
Preface Donald Richie
Price JPY 3,080
ISBN 978-4-8053-1024-3
Format 130×203mm 636pages
Availability Out-of-print
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Edward Seidensticker's Tokyo: From Edo to Showa, available here for the first time in a single volume, tells the story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to one of the most renowned modern cities in the world. With the same scholarship and style that won him admiration as one of the premier translators of Japanese literature, he offers the reader his own brilliant picture of a whole society suddenly emerging into the modern world. By turns elegiac and funny, reflective and crisp, Tokyo: From Edo to Showa is an important cultural history of Asia's greatest city.

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