Tokyo A Cultural History

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 Cityscapes 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...