With his deep feeling for Japanese literature and long personal acquaintance with Tokyo, Edward Seidensticker was able to evoke the early years of modern Tokyo in Low City, High City. Here he tells the even more startling and colorful story of how Tokyo rose from ruins -- twice -- to become Asia's greatest metropolis. Illustrated.
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With his deep feeling for Japanese literature and long personal acquaintance with Tokyo, Edward Seidensticker was able to evoke the early years of modern Tokyo in Low City, High City. Here he tells the even more startling and colorful story of how Tokyo rose from ruins -- twice -- to become Asia's greatest metropolis. Illustrated.
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New York. 1990. March 1990. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394543602. 363 pages. hardcover. Jacket lithograph by Kakiuchi Seiyo. keywords: Tokyo History Japan. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Great Earthquake of 1923 left much of Tokyo desolate. Shitamachi, the Low City, heart of Tokyo's cultural life for centuries, was a smoking ruin-hundreds of blocks of wooden dwellings, teahouses, and entertainment quarters hone forever. Yet Tokyo was a city that would not die. inventory #13860.
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Very good in fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; NOT an ex library book. Name whited out top of front endpaper. 362 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.