LEADER 04614nam 22009734a 450 001 9910783670303321 005 20220725214817.0 010 $a1-282-36046-9 010 $a1-4237-5264-3 010 $a9786612360466 010 $a0-520-94146-2 010 $a1-59875-928-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520941465 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246840 035 $a(EBL)254861 035 $a(OCoLC)63813517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165877 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206223 035 $a(PQKB)10935908 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC254861 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30477 035 $a(DE-B1597)519601 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520941465 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246840 100 $a20050614d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapan in print $einformation and nation in the early modern period /$fMary Elizabeth Berry 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 0 $aAsia: Local Studies / Global Themes ;$v12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25417-1 311 $a0-520-23766-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-308) and index. 327 $tList of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A traveling clerk goes to the bookstores -- 2. The library of public information -- 3. Maps are strange -- 4. Blood right and merit -- 5. The freedom of the city -- 6. Cultural custody, cultural literacy -- 7. Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aA quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600's. Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Japan in Print shows how, as investigators collected and disseminated richly diverse data, they came to presume in their audience a standard of cultural literacy that changed anonymous consumers into an "us" bound by common frames of reference. This shared space of knowledge made society visible to itself and in the process subverted notions of status hierarchy. Berry demonstrates that the new public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by universal access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning. 410 0$aAsia--local studies/global themes ;$v12. 606 $aPrinting$zJapan$xHistory$y17th century 610 $aagronomy. 610 $aasian history. 610 $acartography. 610 $acommerce. 610 $acommon frames of reference. 610 $acommunication. 610 $acultural literacy. 610 $adiverse data. 610 $aearly modern japan. 610 $aearly modern period. 610 $aeast asian culture. 610 $aentertainment. 610 $agastronomy. 610 $ajapan. 610 $ajapanese culture. 610 $ajapanese society. 610 $amarkets. 610 $amaterial culture. 610 $amedia studies. 610 $amedicine. 610 $amobility. 610 $amodel of the land. 610 $anational collectivity. 610 $aprint culture. 610 $aself fashioning. 610 $aself knowledge. 610 $asociability. 610 $astate surveillance. 610 $astatus hierarchy. 610 $atravel. 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory 676 $a686.209520909032 700 $aBerry$b Mary Elizabeth$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0644593 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783670303321 996 $aJapan in print$93860652 997 $aUNINA