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The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History: Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Kären Wigen
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For most of the twentieth century, geography has been pushed so far into the background in the English-language corpus on early modern Japan as to be rendered virtually invisible. To the extent that it has been noticed, geography is typically seen precisely as background: the passive (if sometimes predestining) stage on which the historical drama is acted out. While attention is ritually paid to Japan's location and topography, most historians' analyses of Tokugawa development have until recently been couched in essentially aspatial terms.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 3 - 29
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992

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