Main entry:

Finn, Dallas.

Title & Author:

Meiji revisited : the sites of Victorian Japan / by Dallas Finn.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Weatherhill, 1995.

Description:

ix, 276 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Western sites before Meiji -- Chapter 2: Early Meiji places -- Government projects: Fukoku Kyōhei -- Local buildings: Bummei Kaika -- Chapter 3: Transforming travel -- Ships and lighthouses -- The railroads -- Chapter 4: Building the frontier -- Chapter 5: The foreigners' world -- The settlements -- Christian missions -- Chapter 6: Building imperial Japan -- Palaces and public buildings -- Military buildings -- School buildings -- Buildings for the arts -- Chapter 7: The race to build industry -- Textiles -- Tobacco and alcoholic beverages -- Coal, iron, and steel -- Ships and shipbuilding -- The battleship Mikasa -- Chapter 8: Feats of engineering -- The railroads -- Bridges -- Canals -- Chapter 9: The flowering of late Meiji -- Parks and public decoration -- Prefectural offices -- Courts, prisons, and police stations -- Post offices -- Schools -- Schools for women -- Libraries and museums -- The Hyōkeikan -- Chapter 10: Business buildings -- Banks -- Insurance building -- Chapter 11: "High-collar" housing -- Tokyo mansions -- Regional mansions -- Hotels -- Chapter 12: Royal reception halls, mansions, & palaces -- Chapter 13: Last rites & last buildings.

Summary:

During the Meiji period (1868-1912) the Japanese laid the foundations for what is now the most advanced nation in Asia. Like Victorian Britain, which served as a potent model, Meiji Japan was characterized by faith in progress, civilization and the growth of empire. The architecture and feats of engineering described and illustrated in Meiji Revisited stand as monuments to the dynamism and ambitions of the age, and to Japan's transformation from an isolated feudal society into a modern and remarkably cosmopolitan nation-state. Factories and schools, palaces and prisons, private homes, churches, hospitals, railways, bridges, canals, shipyards, parks, and museums are presented with careful attention to both the nuances of their design and construction and to their broader significance in reflecting and shaping the lives and consciousness of the people who built and used them. -- from dust cover.

ISBN:

0834802880
9780834802889

Subject:

Architecture Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Civil engineering Japan History 19th century.
Civil engineering Japan History 20th century.
Architecture Japon Histoire 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture Meiji period
Civil engineering
Civilization
Civilization English influences
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Japan 19th century.
Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Architecture Japon.
Génie civil Japon 19e siècle.
Génie civil Japon 20e siècle.
Japan Civilization English influences.
Japan Civilization 1868-1912.
Japon Civilisation 1868-1912.
Japan
Japan Civilization 1568-1600.
Japon Civilisation Influence occidentale.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Maison Hermès 8F Forum (Tokyo, Japan)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 84161
Call No.: ID NA1554.5.F56; ID:95-B3443
Status: Available