| Preface | ix |
| Conventions | xiii |
| Chronologies | xvi |
| List of illustrations | xvii |
| Introduction | 1 |
1 | The history of the book and japan | 8 |
1.1 | Books and the state | 11 |
1.2 | Books and the colonial experience | 17 |
1.3 | The advent and consequences of print | 20 |
1.4 | Calligraphy and the block-printed book | 26 |
1.5 | Literacy and reading | 30 |
2 | Books as material objects | 39 |
2.1 | Paper and the roll | 40 |
2.2 | Forms of the book | 43 |
2.3 | Printing and the book | 47 |
2.4 | Illustration and the arts of the book | 56 |
2.5 | Printed maps, serial publications and ephemera | 60 |
2.6 | Conservation | 74 |
3 | Manuscript culture | 78 |
3.1 | Manuscripts in the Nara period | 78 |
3.2 | Manuscripts up to 1600 | 87 |
3.3 | Manuscripts in the Tokugawa period | 99 |
4 | Printed Books | 112 |
4.1 | Printing before 1600 | 114 |
4.1.1 | The Hyakumanto darani | 114 |
4.1.2 | The Heian, Kamakura and Muromachi periods | 117 |
4.2 | Movable type: the early phase | 125 |
4.2.1 | The Jesuit mission press | 125 |
4.2.2 | Korean movable type | 128 |
4.2.3 | Japanese movable type | 129 |
4.3 | Blockprinting in the Tokugawa and early Meiji periods | 136 |
4.3.1 | Commercial publishing | 136 |
4.3.2 | Official publishing | 143 |
4.3.3 | Private publishing | 149 |
4.3.4 | Reprints of non-Japanese works | 153 |
4.4 | Later movable type and copperplate | 158 |
4.4.1 | Wooden movable type | 158 |
4.4.2 | Western-style movable type | 163 |
4.4.3 | Copperplate | 166 |
5 | The book trade in the Tokugawa period | 169 |
5.1 | Publishing and bookselling | 170 |
5.1.1 | Bookshops and publishers | 170 |
5.1.2 | Production and the guilds | 179 |
5.1.3 | Sales and prices 1 | 184 |
5.1.4 | Marketing and advertising | 187 |
5.2 | The growth of the publishing trade | 192 |
5.2.1 | Publishing in Kyoto | 194 |
5.2.2 | Publishing in Osaka | 197 |
5.2.3 | Publishing in Edo | 199 |
5.2.4 | Publishing in the provinces | 205 |
5.3 | The publishers | 207 |
5.3.1 | Murakami Kanbee | 208 |
5.3.2 | Suwaraya Mohee | 210 |
5.3.3 | Eirakuya Toshiro | 213 |
5.3.4 | Obiya Ihee | 215 |
5.3.5 | Tsutaya Juzaburo | 218 |
5.3.6 | Kawachiya Mohee | 221 |
6 | Authors and readers | 223 |
6.1 | Authorship | 223 |
6.1.1 | The evolution of the author | 225 |
6.1.2 | Royalties | 239 |
6.1.3 | Copyright | 242 |
6.2 | Readership | 251 |
6.2.1 | Readers and reading before 1600 | 251 |
6.2.2 | Readers and reading after 1600 | 258 |
6.2.3 | Literacy | 269 |
7 | Transmission | 277 |
7.1 | Transmission to Japan | 277 |
7.1.1 | Pre-Tokugawa imports from China | 278 |
7.1.2 | Pre-Tokugawa imports from Korea and Parhae | 293 |
7.1.3 | Later imports of Chinese and Korean books | 296 |
7.1.4 | Imports of European and American books | 300 |
7.2 | Transmission from Japan | 306 |
7.2.1 | Exports of Japanese books to China and Korea | 306 |
7.2.2 | Exports of Japanese books to the West | 313 |
8 | Censorship | 320 |
8.1 | Censorship before the Tokugawa period | 321 |
8.2 | Censorship in the Tokugawa period | 324 |
8.2.1 | The exclusion of Christianity | 325 |
8.2.2 | Secular censorship and the book trade | 331 |
8.2.3 | Calendars | 353 |
8.3 | Censorship in the early Meiji period | 358 |
9 | Libraries and Collectors | 363 |
9.1 | Libraries and book collecting before 1600 | 364 |
9.1.1 | Nara and Heian periods | 364 |
9.1.2 | Kamakura and Muromachi periods | 371 |
9.2 | Libraries and book collecting after 1600 | 376 |
9.2.1 | Ieyasu, Yoshimune and the Bakufu Library | 376 |
9.2.2 | Institutional libraries | 384 |
9.2.3 | Other libraries and collections | 388 |
9.2.4 | Commercial lending libraries | 391 |
9.3 | Ownership | 398 |
9.4 | The Meiji transition and modern collections | 406 |
10 | Catalogues and Bibliography | 413 |
10.1 | Catalogues and categories | 414 |
10.1.1 | Pre-Tokugawa | 416 |
10.1.2 | Tokugawa period | 427 |
10.2 | Bibliography in the Tokugawa period | 437 |
| Afterword | 446 |
| Appendix | 450 |
| Glossary | 455 |
| Abbreviations | 457 |
| Bibliography | 461 |
| Index | 478 |