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Toby, Ronald P. Toyosawa, Nobuko 2015-09-28T15:40:12Z 2015-09-28T15:40:12Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 Through careful reading of Shiga's Landscape, this dissertation demonstrates the complex processes of creating a tradition of topographic writings. On the one hand, Shiga's text embodies scientific discourses to explain the beauty of Japanese landscape. At the same time, he makes a link to a well-known traveler and scholar, Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714), who developed a new mode of writing about space and topography, movement across the landscape, and the relationship of spaces in the present to moments in the past. By separating Ekiken's spatial writings from conventional travel writing, this dissertation traces a genealogy of spatial writings from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Ultimately, it articulates social imagination of national space and time for modern Japan, which was grounded in the aestheticization and naturalization of Japan's geographic beauty. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:40:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3337944.pdf: 15904421 bytes, checksum: e0783db6ab91433913e6582b8b9ef724 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88490 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 272 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87209 (MiAaPQ)AAI3337944 eng History, Asia, Australia and Oceania "The Cartography of Epistemology: The Production of ""National"" Space in Late 19th Century Japan" text East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.