Tôkaidô Road

Jilly Traganou currently teaches Architecture at the University of Texas. She has contributed to Japanese Capitals and Suburbanizing the Masses.

'Of great value for those interested in the history of travelling in Japan, and more specifically of travelling along the Tôkaidô.' - Society for Japanese Arts Newsletter'What Treganou gives is a compendium of the culture and history of the Tôkaidô in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It is a helpful work that will encourage serious thinking about the range of issues it covers.' - Journal of School of Oriental and African Studies'Jilly Traganou's Tokaido Road provides a valuable multidimensional perspective on what is arguably the most renowned thoroughfare in the world.' - Monumenta Nipponica

• List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction 2. Infrastructure and Cartography of the Tôkaidô in Macro 2.1. The Tôkaidô as a Geopolitical Territory 2.2. Infrastructure upon the Tôkaidô Route 2.3. The Tôkaidô's Cartography 3. Travelling Practices and Literary Tôkaidô 3.1. Road Cosmology - The Road as a Microcosm 3.2. Travelling Practices of the Edo Period 3.3. Literary Tôkaidô 4. Performance, Visuality and Imagination at the Tôkaidô's Micro-Scale 4.1. Transportation-Stations: Spaces of Performance, Spaces of Representation 4.2. Tôkaidô and Visuality 5. Conclusions and Openings: The Tôkaidô as Medium of National Knowledge 5.1. National Knowledge and Epistemology 5.2. History as Nostalgia, History as Play Bibliography Notes