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The city is the site of a multitude of forces and desires. How are these forces manifested, inscribed on the surface of the territory? How are the stories of desires and disappointments told? What are the relations between the physical and social worlds? It is with these questions that Japan Story explores the physical and social transformations of Japanese urbanization.
Detail. 1860 Route map from Kōbe to Nagasaki). Shinto shrines in red, e.g. Itsukushima shrine on Miyajima island, except for two near Ōsaka. Deshima appears as a compound inland near Nagasaki. Courtesy University of British Columbia Library Tokugawa maps collection.
