Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 46)

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

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Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 46)

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

Written by Matthias Hayek
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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 Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki.

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Language Eng
Published September 12, 2014
ISBN 22959804
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Matthias Hayek finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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