UID:
almahu_9949701279802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004279728
Series Statement:
Brill's japanese studies library ; v. 46
Content:
Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools that teachers, booksellers, and authors elaborated to make such knowledge more accessible to a large audience. Schools, public lectures, private academies or hand-copied or printed manuals devoted to a great variety of topics, from epistolary etiquette or personal ethics to calculation, divination or painting, are here invoked to illustrate the vitality of Tokugawa Japan's 'knowledge market', and to show how popular learning relied on three types of activities: listening, copying and reading. With contributions by: W.J. Boot, Matthias Hayek, Annick Horiuchi, Michael Kinski, Koizumi Yoshinaga, Peter Kornicki, Machi Senjūrō, Christophe Marquet, Markus Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki.
Note:
Includes index.
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Preliminary Material --
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Editors' Introduction --
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1 From Dialogue to Mass-logue: Oral Performance within Sekimon Shingaku /
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2 Ideological Construction and Books in Early Modern Japan-Political Sense, Cosmology, and World Views /
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3 Treasure Boxes, Fabrics, and Mirrors: On the Contents and the Classification of Popular Encyclopedias from Early Modern Japan /
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4 Learning to Read and Write-A Study of Tenaraibon /
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5 What does "Literature of Correspondence" Mean? An Examination of the Japanese Genre Term ōraimono and its History /
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6 The Evolution of 'Learning' in Early Modern Japanese Medicine /
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7 From Liuyu yanyi to Rikuyu engi taii: Turning a Vernacular Chinese Text into a Moral Textbook in Edo-period Japan /
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8 Chinese Scholarship and Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Kyoto /
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9 The Jinkōki Phenomenon: The Story of a Longstanding Calculation Manual in Tokugawa Japan /
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10 From Esoteric Tools to Handbooks "for Beginners": Printed Divination Books from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century /
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11 Learning Painting in Books: Typology, Readership and Uses of Printed Painting Manuals during the Edo Period /
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Index of Book Titles --
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Index of Names --
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Index of Subjects.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014, ISBN 9789004279704
Language:
English
