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Title A social history of literacy in Japan / edited by Richard Rubinger
Published London, UK : Anthem Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Contents Estimating Literacy in Premodern Japan / Kimura Masanobu, translated by Richard Rubinger -- "Illiteracy" Among Heian Period Aristocrats / Suzuki Rie, translated by Richard Rubinger -- Learning and Literacy Among Ikkō Ikki Adherents / Ohto Yasuhiro, translated by Richard Rubinger -- Literacy and Orality in Support of Christian Beliefs in Early Modern Japan / Kimura Masanobu, translated by Richard Rubinger -- Personal Marks and Literacy Among Early Modern Japanese Farmers / Umemura Kayo, translated by Richard Rubinger -- Literacy in Early Modern Echizen and Wakasa Regions / Yakuwa Tomohiro, translated by David Nelson -- Education of Provincial Merchants in Early Modern Aizu : Evidence From the Keiseikan Diary / Ohta Motoko, translated by Charles Andrews -- Literacy in Ozenji Village in the Early Nineteenth Century / Ohto Yasuhiro, translated by Gregory Johnson -- Early Meiji Literacy : the Case of Wakayama Prefecture / Kawamura Hajime, translated by Terrence Jackson
Summary Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides solid empirical evidence and original analyses of literacy in their own particular specialty, from Heian aristocrats, to religious sects in the medieval period, to Christian believers in the sixteenth century, to a variety of farmers and merchants in early modern times. The book is unique in the sense that literacy in Japan is analysed with a high degree of methodological sophistication backed by empirical evidence in the form of 'signatures' or personal marks on documents, on so many topics. The result is to show the often fallacious and easy generalizations made about literacy in Japan and to show that evidence exists to enable more robust empirical investigations to be undertaken. This book will make it possible for the Japanese case to be used more meaningfully worldwide and in comparative studies of literacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English, translated from Japanese
Print version record and online resource (JSTOR, viewed January 9, 2023)
Subject Literacy -- Social aspects -- Japan
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
Literacy -- Social aspects.
Japan.
Form Electronic book
Author Rubinger, Richard, 1943- editor.
ISBN 1785277022
9781785277023
9781785277030
1785277030