"The Cartography of Epistemology: The Production of ""National"" Space in Late 19th Century Japan"
Toyosawa, Nobuko
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Description
Title
"The Cartography of Epistemology: The Production of ""National"" Space in Late 19th Century Japan"
Author(s)
Toyosawa, Nobuko
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Toby, Ronald P.
Department of Study
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Discipline
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Language
eng
Abstract
Through careful reading of Shiga's Landscape, this dissertation demonstrates the complex processes of creating a tradition of topographic writings. On the one hand, Shiga's text embodies scientific discourses to explain the beauty of Japanese landscape. At the same time, he makes a link to a well-known traveler and scholar, Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714), who developed a new mode of writing about space and topography, movement across the landscape, and the relationship of spaces in the present to moments in the past. By separating Ekiken's spatial writings from conventional travel writing, this dissertation traces a genealogy of spatial writings from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Ultimately, it articulates social imagination of national space and time for modern Japan, which was grounded in the aestheticization and naturalization of Japan's geographic beauty.
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