Processional prints of the Kanda festival: popular visual culture and neighborhood identity.
This article considers the historical position of neighborhood identities in the city of Edo-Tokyo as represented in woodblock prints depicting the biennial procession of the Kanda shrine festival (Kanda matsuri). Through close analyses of two prints in which I attend to the commercial and local-geo...
| Published in: | Japan Forum Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 30 - 56 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
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