Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period

Japan in Print

Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period

By
Mary Elizabeth Berry
Mary Elizabeth Berry
2006 • 346 pages

Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.

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