Low city, high city: Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake by Edward G. Seidensticker, Edward G. Seidensticker

Low city, high city: Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake

Edward G. Seidensticker, Edward G. Seidensticker

302 pages • first pub 1983 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous reflective relaxing slow-paced
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This book looks at the metamorphosis of Japan from a country with little contact with the outside world to one brimming with Western ideas and technologies. Seidensticker focuses on Tokyo in the years between the Meiji Restoration and the earthqua...

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