| Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan Contributor(s): Hayek, Horiuchi |
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ISBN: 9004279709 ISBN-13: 9789004279704 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $179.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.43 |
| LCCN: 2014022707 |
| Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.63 lbs) 394 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 R ttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki. |