{"product_id":"tokyo-stephen-mansfield-9780195386349","title":"Tokyo: A Cultural History","description":"Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's \u003cem\u003eCityscapes\u003c\/em\u003e series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Mansfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195386345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195386349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Stephen Mansfield","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054662512895,"sku":"9780195386349","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_629f6bdd-a461-4b14-9084-36f5507aa607.jpg?v=1685031253","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tokyo-stephen-mansfield-9780195386349","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}