https://exhibits.stanford.edu/time-travel-japan
Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: Travel Through Time: Japan gives a sample of the travel-related ephemera collected by the East Asia Library at Stanford. Spanning the Edo through Taisho periods, the collection documents a period of much change.
At the core of the collection are precinct prints 境内図, a genre of prints depicting the environs of a temple or shrine produced for pilgrims. They are rich in information about perceptions of space, intriguing in their depictions of places and people, and invaluable for scholars of material history, religious history, the history of printing and travel. Yet, perhaps because they do not conform to definitions of maps or art, per se, precinct prints have not been widely collected by museums or libraries. Precinct prints were born from a tradition of depicting temple environs as the cosmic realm along the lines of mandalas.
- Institution/Author: Stanford University
- Period: Premodern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎