About the Author

Nobuko Toyosawa is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences.

Reviews

The book is lavishly produced with beautiful four-color illustrations...A genuine contribution to our scholarship on early modern and modern Japanese intellectual history. Toyosawa's innovative insights into the theme of landscape connect Tokugawa and Meiji-era thought in productive, exciting, and unexpected ways. -- Mark Ravina * Journal of Japanese Studies *
Toyosawa analyzes the influential works of several early-modern and modern Japanese scholar-writers that exemplify how the natural landscape has long been a source of power and as a defining core of Japanese identity. -- Rex J. Rowley * Historical Geography *