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[S2E27] 🗺️ Maps & Imagined Travel with Dr Sonia Favi
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Oliver is joined by Dr Sonia Favi, researcher at the University of Turin, to discuss the history of imagined travel. Sonia’s digital exhibition, ‘Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868): A Virtual Journey’, explores how late-Edo period maps indulged the imagination of those unable to journey across the country, something all too familiar in the wake of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Download the full transcript here (PDF)
Watch with subtitles on YouTube
IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS
Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com
[L] Nanban byōbu by Kanō Naizen (Folding screen depicting ‘Southern barbarians’ – i.e. European travellers – as they land on Japanese shores). First quarter of the 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[R] Measured map of the Tōkaidō Highway by Ochikochi Dōin and Hishikawa Moronobu (1690) 東海道分間絵図; Tōkaidō bunken no zu; 東海道分間之図. John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
Copyright © 2022 Oliver Moxham, ℗ 2022 Oliver Moxham. May be freely distributed for education purposes.
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Manage episode 329753889 series 2988529
Oliver is joined by Dr Sonia Favi, researcher at the University of Turin, to discuss the history of imagined travel. Sonia’s digital exhibition, ‘Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868): A Virtual Journey’, explores how late-Edo period maps indulged the imagination of those unable to journey across the country, something all too familiar in the wake of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Download the full transcript here (PDF)
Watch with subtitles on YouTube
IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS
Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com
[L] Nanban byōbu by Kanō Naizen (Folding screen depicting ‘Southern barbarians’ – i.e. European travellers – as they land on Japanese shores). First quarter of the 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[R] Measured map of the Tōkaidō Highway by Ochikochi Dōin and Hishikawa Moronobu (1690) 東海道分間絵図; Tōkaidō bunken no zu; 東海道分間之図. John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
Copyright © 2022 Oliver Moxham, ℗ 2022 Oliver Moxham. May be freely distributed for education purposes.
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