A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/12/2000
The ten chapters of this exemplary monograph cover every major aspect of the book in traditional Japan: its place in Japanese history; books as material objects; manuscript cultures; printing; the Edo period book trade; authors and readers; importation and exportation; censorship; libraries and collectors; and bibliographic catalogues.... A handsome and beautifully organized handbook that is sure to inform and stimulate research for many years to come.
- ISBN:
- 9780824823375
- 9780824823375
- Category:
- Literary studies: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-12-2000
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 520
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x156x26mm
- Weight:
- 0.73kg
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