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