Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 /
Gennifer Weisenfeld.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- xv, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
- [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22] .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) 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.
9780520271951
Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. Earthquakes in art. Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century. Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.