Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's great earthquake of 1923 - Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. (Gennifer Stacy), 1966- (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index.
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Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation.
Keywords: Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.; Earthquakes in art; Arts and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- Japan