Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)
Contributors: Anthony Grafton (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780520254176
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Media Studies - Print Media; History / General; Asia - Japan; Earth Sciences - Geography
First sentence: SUPPOSE YOU LIVED in Kyoto about three hundred years ago and were facing your first trip to Edo, the Tokugawa shogun's capital, some five hundred kilometers away.