{"product_id":"9780190452667","title":"Tokyo A Cultural History","description":"Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's \u003cem\u003eCityscapes\u003c\/em\u003e series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077611176176,"sku":"9780190452667","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780190452667_p0.jpg?v=1763660192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780190452667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}