The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century

Contents: The history of the book and japan Books and the state Books and the colonial experience The advent and consequences of print Calligraphy and the block-printed book Literacy and reading Books as material objects Paper and the roll Forms of the book Printing and the book Illustration and the arts of the book Printed maps, serial publications and ephemera Conservation Manuscript culture Manuscripts in the Nara period Manuscripts up to 1600 Manuscripts in the Tokugawa period Printed Books Printing before 1600 The Hyakumanto darani The Heian, Kamakura and Muromachi periods Movable type: the early phase The Jesuit mission press Korean movable type Japanese movable type Blockprinting in the Tokugawa and early Meiji periods Commercial publishing Official publishing Private publishing Reprints of non-Japanese works Later movable type and copperplate Wooden movable type Western-style movable type Copperplate The book trade in the Tokugawa period Publishing and bookselling Bookshops and publishers Production and the guilds Sales and prices Marketing and advertising The growth of the publishing trade Publishing in Kyoto Publishing in Osaka Publishing in Edo Publishing in the provinces The publishers Murakami Kanbee Suwaraya Mohee Eirakuya Toshiro Obiya Ihee Tsutaya Juzaburo Kawachiya Mohee Authors and readers Authorship The evolution of the author Royalties