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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
26 Jan 2000
Nakasendo Highway: A Journey to the
Heart of Japan
Department of History, University of Hong Kong, HK, China
Supplied note:
"This website takes Japan's Nakasendo highway as a metaphor through which a wide
variety of topics
about Japan are presented. The highway flourished in the Edo Period (1600-1887),
going from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo), through the center of
the Japan's main island. Connecting the premodern and modern capitals and traversing central Honshu,
the highway touches some of what might be called the 'hearts' of Japan and so does the website. Hyperlinked text, photographs and animations present a fictional trip along the highway in addition to giving information
appropriate to the introductory academic and general audience."
Self-description: "This project, by Dr. R.T.A. Irving of Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and Dr. Thomas A. Stanley,
Department of History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, began as a multimedia CD-ROM project. It has been transferred
from that media to the World Wide Web in stages and will ultimately be expanded beyond the CD-ROM presentation, especially in
terms of photographs. The project contains some 225 articles of various, usually substantial, lengths (some 130,000 words in total),
nearly 200 glossary items (or definitions) and over 300 photographs, maps and illustrations. More photographs will be added at a
later time."
[A great site indeed (an earlier convern of mine regarding its universal legibility proved to be groundless) - ed.]
URL http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/nakasendo/
Link suggested by: Thomas A. Stanley (tstanley@hkucc.hku.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
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