Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
- Jaar:
- 2011
- Onderwerp:
- 20th Century (1901-2000)
Travel
Tokyo (Japan) - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Stanford, CA Stanford University Press 2011
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.TOP JP.TOK (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9780804771443
9780804771450 - Paginering:
- xiii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000009934
