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Book Review

Asia

Marcia Yonemoto. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868). (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes, number 7.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 234. $49.95.
Specialists in Japanese history will find a great deal of interest in Marcia Yonemoto's broadly conceived and nicely executed study; non-Japan specialists, especially historians of early modern Europe and the Americas, may find the book equally worthwhile. Although cultural perspectives on the evolution of maps in Europe and the United States are hardly absent, the main thrust of the history of cartography isolates and explores the scientific and technical development of maps or their use as political tools (intimately linked to technical development) in a story of (sometimes triumphalist) progress. This book is an exemplary reminder that the scientific and technical development of cartography is only one lens through which to view our world.	1
The book's distinctiveness lies in Yonemoto's weaving together the story of how mapping developed and spread in seventeenth through nineteenth-century Japan with a broader account of the ways in which highly literate Japanese saw themselves in relation to Japan and Japan in relation to the world. In the process, cartographic developments are freed from the story of technical progress and the founding of the modern and displayed as one of several perspectives that emerged in the worlds of literature, travel, fashion/trend-setting, and visions of urban development, among others. In the process of creating these early modern mental maps, Yonemoto plumbs an extensive variety of sources: satire, travel literature, gazetteers, reference works, and guidebooks as well as more traditional historical sources such as memoirs and, of course, maps.	. . .

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