Technical knowledge in early modern Japan
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Technical knowledge in early modern Japan
Renaissance Books, 2020
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA's* first international conference addressing the long-neglected field relating to the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan from the Edo to the Meiji periods, this volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject, from Hashimoto Takehiko's detailed examination of Tanaka Hisashige's 'Myriad Year Clock', Regine Mathias's paper on mining and smelting, and Erich Pauer's overview of Japanese technical books in the pre-modern era, to Suzuki Jun's detailed account of boiler-making in late nineteenth-century Japan. * Centre Europeen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace, 2017
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Remarks on the History of Technology in Japan
Erich PAUER
1. Production Techniques in Early Modern Japan as seen through 'Famous Products of Japan from Mountain and Sea, Illustrated' (Nippon sankai meisan zue, 1799)
Annick HORIUCHI
2. Vehicles of Knowledge: Japanese Technical Drawings in the Pre-modern Era, 1600-1868
Erich PAUER
3. Dissemination of Knowledge and Technology: The Extensive Range of Exhibitions in Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
IT? Mamiko
4. Knowledge on Mining and Smelting and Its Dissemination in the Edo Period
Regine MATHIAS
5. Tanaka Hisashige and His Myriad Year Clock: Its Technological Characteristics and Historical Background
HASHIMOTO Takehiko
6. A Statistical Analysis of To-kyo- Meiko- Kagami (with a Focus on Highly Skilled Metalwork Craftsmen)
NISHIYAMA Takahiro
7. Boiler Manufacture in Late-nineteenth Century Japan: From First Beginnings to Nationwide Expansion
SUZUKI Jun (Translated by Nicholas Pertwee)
Appendix: Selected Sources on the Japanese History of Technology (especially on series)
Erich PAUER
List of Contributors
Index
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