Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture) by Matthew Stavros

Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)

Matthew Stavros

256 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced

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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a ...

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