Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's ancient capital became a great modern city, 1867 - 1923

Engagingly written. A stylist of great attainments, Seidensticker has a nice way with an aphorism, and his prose is studded with observations that linger in the memory...[Low City, High City] is an uncommonly perceptive and revealing analysis of the Westernization or modernization of Japan...[It] illuminates the extraordinary metamorphosis of Japan over the last 125 years more effectively and pleasurably than many books that have tackled the theme head on.Seidensticker, Edward G. is the author of 'Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's ancient capital became a great modern city, 1867 - 1923' with ISBN 9780674539396 and ISBN 0674539397.