Popular literacy in early modern Japan /
The focus of Richard Rubinger's study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical exploration of the topic, the first in any language, Rubinger dispels the misconception that there are...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | In English. |
| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Literacy in early Tokugawa villages
- Signatures, ciphers, and seals
- Country culture and the rise of provincial literati in the eighteenth century
- The nineteenth-century expansion of popular literacy
- Direct measures of popular literacy in the nineteenth century.