Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
(Part of the Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture Series)
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824867882
ISBN13:9780824867881
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.9" x 9.2"
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