Imaging disaster Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 /
Gennifer Weisenfeld.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2012., (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) illustrations (some color), color maps.
- Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
9780520954243
Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. Earthquakes in art. Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century. Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.