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Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Asia: Local Studies Global Themes) by Mary Elizabeth Berry; Anthony Grafton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, officia

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Author

Mary Elizabeth Berry; Anthony Grafton

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612360466

Category

history

Subjects

Reference, Education, Typography

Updated

2026-03-25