Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan 9780824863975

The focus of Richard Rubinger’s study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premo

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Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan
9780824863975

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Richard Rubinger

Table of contents :
Contents
Figures, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Literacy in Early Tokugawa Villages
2. Signatures, Ciphers, and Seals
3. Rural Culture and the Rise of Provincial Literati in the Eighteenth Century
4. The Expansion of Popular Literacy in the Nineteenth Century
5. Direct Measures of Popular Literacy in the Nineteenth Century
Epilogue: Illiteracy in Meiji Japan
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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