Listen, Copy, Read - Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in the acquisition of knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period.

About the author

Matthias Hayek, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor at Paris Diderot University. He has published articles on Early Modern Japanese divination, and co-edited, with Hayashi Makoto, a special issue of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies: Onmyōdō in Japanese History, (40/1, 2013).
Annick Horiuchi, Ph.D. (1990), is Professor of Japanese Studies at Paris Diderot University. She has published Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period (1600-1868) (Birkhäuser, 2010) and co-edited Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (Droz, 2002).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9789004279704
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27970-4
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 746 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous