[PDF.11bc] Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)

Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)

[PDF.tg59] Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)

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 | #1406496 in Books |  2014-10-31 |  2014-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x7.50 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An Engaging Read|By Jared|This book offers a detailed account of Kyoto and its landscape through the ages, describing the events and people which shaped the city, and Japan as a whole.
From Kyoto's origins as a Chinese-inspired 'eternal capital', Stavros shows the reader a city that despite considerable changes to its form and character never lost its place as the primary| |In this lively examination of the role Kyoto s built environment plays in understanding Japanese history, Stavros (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) provides a wealth of well-chosen, enriching detail in a beautifully illustrated context of maps, diagrams, and images

Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious currents of Asia coalesced and flourished. Despite these and many other traits that make Kyoto a place of both Japanese and world historical significance, the phy...

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