Recent Trends in Scholarship on Early Modern Japanese Print Culture

Annick Horiuchi (1)

1 CRCAO - Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie Orientale

This article highlights several recent English- and French-language monographs and articles that focus on early modern Japanese print and publishing culture from a variety of perspectives, including (1) as valuable sources of information on Edo period society and ways of thinking; (2) as cultural products involving multiple actors (authors, publishers / booksellers, illustrators, etc.); and (3) as multifaceted phenomena, where text and image are inherently intertwined and cannot be analyzed in isolation.

Keywords: Edo period early modern Japan publishing books; Edo period; early modern Japan; publishing; books; print

Domains: History

Annick Horiuchi. Recent Trends in Scholarship on Early Modern Japanese Print Culture. Japanese Studies around the World, 2024, 2023, pp.17-23. ⟨10.15055/0002000126⟩. ⟨hal-04527242⟩