Examining cultural production in the city of Kyoto in two periods of political transition, this book promises to be a major step forward in advancing our knowledge of Kyoto's history and culture. Its chapters focus on two periods in Kyoto's history in which the old capital was politically marginalized: the early Edo period and the Meiji period.

Morgan Pitelka is a Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Carolina Asia Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His publications include Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (2015).

Alice Y. Tseng is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, USA. Her publications include The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (2008).

1. Introduction Part I 2. Warriors in the Capital: Kobori Enshu and Kyoto Cultural Hybridity 3. From Kyoto to Edo and Back: Karasumaru Mitsuhiro as a Seventeenth-Century Diplomatic and Cultural Emissary 4. Subversive Shelf Decoration: The Princeton Sagamigawa Picture Scrolls Part II 5. Urban Parks and Imperial Memory: The Formation of Kyoto Imperial Garden and Okazaki Park as Sites of Cultural Revival 6. Rescuing Temples and Empowering Art: Naiki Jinzaburo and the Rise of Civic Initiatives in Meiji Kyoto 7. Naturalism Fusing Past and Present: The Reconfiguration of the Kyoto School of Painting and the Revival of the Textile Industry Epilogue 8. A Kyoto Garden Renewal? From Meiji to Early Showa Period