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The book in Japan : a cultural history from the beginnings to the nineteenth century / Peter Kornicki.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection Z8.J3 K67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--Japan--History.
- Books.
- Publishers and publishing--Japan--History.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Printing--Japan--History.
- Printing.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- 1. The history of the book and Japan
- 2. Books as material objects
- 3. Manuscript culture
- 4. Printed books
- 5. The book trade in the Tokugawa period
- 6. Authors and readers
- 7. Transmission
- 8. Censorship
- 9. Libraries and collectors
- 10. Catalogues and bibliography.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Fünfte Abteilung, Japan ; 7. Bd.).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-477) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824823370
- 9780824823375
- OCLC:
- 45080177
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