Kyoto : : An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital / / Matthew Stavros; ed. by Xing Ruan, Ronald G. Knapp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Stavros, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Knapp, Ronald G.,; Ruan, Xing,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 b&w images, 29 color images, 18 maps

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 re...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Conventions and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Heian-kyō: The Ideal
• 2. Heian-kyō: The Real
• 3. Making Kyoto Medieval: A Fractured, Privatized, and Pluralistic City
• 4. Rakuchū-Rakugai: Inside/Outside, Public/Private
• 5. Warriors in the Capital: The Ashikaga and the Classical Ideal
• 6. Warring States Kyoto: Erasing the Classical City
• 7. Castle-Town Kyoto
• Epilogue: Bridge to the Modern
• Notes
• Character Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index