History of Tokyo 1867-1989 - From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City Seidensticker EdwardPaperback
This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this book is something you must have in your collection.…
Specifikacia History of Tokyo 1867-1989 - From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City Seidensticker EdwardPaperback
This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this book is something you must have in your collection. --JapanThis.comEdward Seidensticker's A History of Tokyo 1867-1989 tells the fascinating story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to the largest and the most modern city in the world. With the same scholarship and sparkling style that won him admiration as the foremost translator of great works of Japanese literature, Seidensticker offers the reader his brilliant vision of an entire society suddenly wrenched from an ancient feudal past into the modern world in a few short decades, and the enormous stresses and strains that this brought with it.Originally published as two volumes, Seidensticker's masterful work is now available in a handy,