| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; volume 46 |
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Brill's Japanese studies library.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Editors' Introduction; Part 1 From the Elite to Commoners: Transpositions of Learning and Ideologies; 1 From Dialogue to Mass-logue: Oral Performance within Sekimon Shingaku; 2 Ideological Construction and Books in Early Modern Japan-Political Sense, Cosmology, and World Views; 3 Treasure Boxes, Fabrics, and Mirrors: On the Contents and the Classification of Popular Encyclopedias from Early Modern Japan; Part 2 From Letters to Popular Encyclopedias: A Myriad of Tools for Learning |
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4 Learning to Read and Write-A Study of Tenaraibon5 What does "Literature of Correspondence" Mean? An Examination of the Japanese Genre Term ōraimono and its History; Part 3 Private Academies: Production and Transmission in a Competitive Context; 6 The Evolution of 'Learning' in Early Modern Japanese Medicine; 7 From Liuyu yanyi to Rikuyu engi taii: Turning a Vernacular Chinese Text into a Moral Textbook in Edo-period Japan; 8 Chinese Scholarship and Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Kyoto; Part 4 Printed Books as Vectors of the Dissemination of Vocational Skills |
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9 The Jinkōki Phenomenon: The Story of a Longstanding Calculation Manual in Tokugawa Japan10 From Esoteric Tools to Handbooks "for Beginners": Printed Divination Books from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century; 11 Learning Painting in Books: Typology, Readership and Uses of Printed Painting Manuals during the Edo Period; Index of Book Titles; Index of Names; Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
This book 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Text primarily in English with some Japanese |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069532
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hayek, Matthias, author, editor
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Horiuchi, Annick, author, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004279728 |
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9004279725 |
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