TY - BOOK AU - Weisenfeld,Gennifer S. TI - Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 T2 - [Asia: local studies/global themes SN - 9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 704.949952032 23 PY - 2012/// CY - California PB - University of California Press KW - Arts, Japanese KW - 20th century KW - Themes, motives KW - Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 KW - Earthquakes in art KW - Arts and society KW - Japan KW - History KW - Earthquakes KW - Social aspects N1 - 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; LIB ER -