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SanctuarieS of the city re-materialising cultural Geography Dr Mark Boyle, Department of Geography, university of Strathclyde, uK, Professor Donald Mitchell, Maxwell School, Syracuse university, uSa and Dr David Pinder, Queen Mary university of London, uK nearly 25 years have elapsed since Peter Jackson’s seminal call to integrate cultural geography back into the heart of social geography. During this time, a wealth of research has been published which has improved our understanding of how culture both plays a part in, and in turn, is shaped by social relations based on class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexuality and so on. in spite of the achievements of this mountain of scholarship, the task of grounding culture in its proper social contexts remains in its infancy. this series therefore seeks to promote the continued significance of exploring the dialectical relations which exist between culture, social relations and space and place. its overall aim is to make a contribution to the consolidation, development and promotion of the ongoing project of re-materialising cultural geography. Also in the series Swinging city a cultural Geography of London 1950–1974 Simon Rycroft iSBn 978 0 7546 4830 7 remembering, forgetting and city Builders Edited by Tovi Fenster and Haim Yacobi iSBn 978 1 4094 0667 9 Doing family Photography the Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment Gillian Rose iSBn 978 0 7546 7732 1 cultural capitals revaluing the arts, remaking urban Spaces Louise C. Johnson iSBn 978 0 7546 4977 9 critical toponymies the contested Politics of Place naming Edited by Lawrence D. Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho iSBn 978 0 7546 7453 5 Sanctuaries of the city Lessons from tokyo anni Greve Roskilde University, Denmark © anni Greve 2011 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. anni Greve has asserted her right under the copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing Limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east Suite 420 union road 101 cherry Street farnham Burlington Surrey, Gu9 7Pt vt 05401-4405 england uSa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Greve, anni. Sanctuaries of the city : lessons from tokyo. – (re-materialising cultural geography) 1. urban ecology (Sociology) 2. environmental psychology. 3. city and town life. 4. Public spaces. 5. city planning – Social aspects. 6. urban ecology (Sociology) – Japan – tokyo. 7. environmental psychology – Japan – tokyo. 8. city and town life – Japan – tokyo. 9. Public spaces – Japan – tokyo. 10. city planning – Social aspects – Japan – tokyo. i. title ii. Series 307.7’6–dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greve, anni. Sanctuaries of the city : lessons from tokyo / by anni Greve. p. cm. – (re-materialising cultural geography) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-0-7546-7764-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-0-7546-9511-0 (ebook) 1. human geography--Japan--tokyo. 2. urban geography—Japan—tokyo. 3. Social indicators—Japan—tokyo. 4. tokyo (Japan)—Social life and customs. i. title. Gf667.t65 2011 304.20952’135—dc22 2011007729 iSBn 9780754677642 (hbk) iSBn 9780754695110 (ebk) III Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, uK. Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements ix Prelude: Positioning 1 1 Sanctuaries of the City, Lessons from Tokyo 9 PART I URBAN SANCTUARY-RESEARCH 2 Sanctuaries for Coming to Terms with Modernity 25 3 Urban Sanctuary-Research 47 4 Sanctuaries of Urban Virtues, a View from Architecture 65 PART II A PLACE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 5 Reconsidering Classical Sociology: In Search of an In Between Realm of Urban Society 89 6 Approaching the Orient 107 7 The Jolly Good Market Place 119 8 Sanctuaries for Performing Arts 133 9 The Sacred Sanctuary 147 PART III LESSONS FROM TOKYO 10 Lessons from Tokyo 167 Postlude 179 References 189 Index 203 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Figures 3.1 Tenryo-ji temple. (Photographed by Palle Kjaerulff-Schmidt) 51 3.2 Three boundaries that may pose an isotope. Redrawn after Michael May (1997). 62 7.1 Map of Edo around 1840s 124-5 10.1 Street dance 176 Postlude.1 Ise Shrine 186 List of Plates 5.1 Matisse “Bathers with a Turtle” (1908). Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Mr and Mrs Joseph Pulitzer Jr. 7.2 A group 9.1 Corridor of torri gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine (Photographed by Palle Kjaerulff-Schmidt) This page has been left blank intentionally Acknowledgements Writing this book was eased by the support from several sources. One is linked to my affiliation with the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University that offered the opportunity to study a research topic at length and to build up a research network outside of Denmark. Another has to do with financial support from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The Scandinavian- Sasakawa Foundation and the Toyota Foundation. A third source is help from committed professors and scholars within the field. Thanks to Hiroyuki Marumo I have been invited guest scholar at the University of Kansai, Department of Architecture in Osaka, and thanks to Hidenobu Jinnai invited guest scholar at Hosei University, Department of Architecture, in Tokyo. Thanks to the kind hospitality of Shoji Ishitsuka, Tokyo University of Information Sciences and Allan Sutherland, Kyushu University of Nursing and Social of Welfare, I have got the opportunity to partake in a number of conferences and interdisciplinary research groups in Japan. I am indebted to the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in particular Willie Watts Miller whom I owe heartfelt thanks for his support when completing the essay ‘Civic cohesion and sanctuaries for coming to terms with modernity’. My thinking about methodology in urban studies is indebted to the co-founders of the Centre of Urban Studies at Roskilde University. The core idea of this study, however, would not have been the same without the meetings and discussions with the members of my research network CITYFUL (Cities with Success): Mats Franzén, Thomas Wikström, Justin Beaumont, Chris Baker, Massimo Rosati, John Eade and Frank Eckart. In the final stage of the writing I have become indebted to a number of people. They include Eiko Ikegami, through her I found a refuge as invited guest scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York. Robert Parkin, Oxford, helped me in editing the text and his competent proof reading has been of great value. Also I want to thank Herman Schmid and Henning Bech who took the time to read the manuscript and give their valuable comments. Ørslev Kloster, a former Benedict nunnery in North Jutland, offered me the perfect sanctuary for finishing the book manuscript. A book of this kind cannot be written without emotional support from my nearest, my husband the Danish jazz musician Karsten Houmark and my daughter the actress Cæcilie Liv Greve Carlsen. Thank you so much.