The Alpine Imaginary in Early Modern Japanese Maps

The Alpine Imaginary in Early Modern Japanese Maps

Karen Wigen - Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

Edo supported one of the most robust publishing industries in the early modern world, and among the most popular genres of woodblock printed materials was the map. In this talk, Karen Wigen will display and discuss printed maps from the Beans collection in Vancouver, asking what they can tell us about how early modern Japanese viewed their mountainous landscape.

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