John Dougill's Kyoto, A Cultural History, published by Oxford University Press in 2006 as part of the Landscapes of the Imagination series, is a scholarly cultural history of Kyoto covering the city's long standing role as Japan's religious and imperial centre, including its major Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, written by an academic based at a Kyoto university with direct long term familiarity with the city. Its strength is that it combines historical depth with the author's sustained residence in and study of the city, and the Oxford series is aimed at an informed general and academic readership alike. Its limit is that as a general cultural history covering many centuries and many sites in a single volume, a claim about one specific shrine or temple's own detailed history should be checked against a source dedicated to that individual site rather than this citywide synthesis.
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John Dougill's Kyoto, A Cultural History, published by Oxford University Press in 2006 in the Landscapes of the Imagination series, is written for an informed general and academic readership alike rather than as a specialist monograph, hence the middle tier notwithstanding the author's sustained residence in and study of the city. NotesCultural history of Kyoto.
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AuthorJohn Dougill
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
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