Types of Print
What were the 5 main genres that appeared in printed books?
geography, travel, famous places, erotica, and military affairs.
When did print and commercially produced texts first become readily available?
1640
What kind of print was first to flood the market?
maps, produced from the findings of local cartographers
What is the name of the geography text that when translated to English was called "The Map of the Seas, Mountains, and Lands of Japan?
Ishikawa Ryu¯sen’s Nihon kaisan cho¯rikuzu
Where could books and printed documents be accessed?
small printing houses, libraries, publishing centres (Edo, Osaka, Kyoto.
What is the alternate name for the Library of Public Information?
The Storehouse of Worldly Reckonings
What did the Pictorial Survey of the To¯kaido¯ encompass?
visual images, illustrated by Hishikawa Moronobu, of the "sweep" of the To¯kaido¯. This included roads, transportation and logging facilities, bridges, ferry terminals, villages and significant monuments
How did self preservation manifest among Japanese writers, especially those who wrote on controvertial or sensitive subjects?
Often these authors would write under a different name in fear of the reprocusions that could arise if the governing powers found out who had written them.
In a bibliophilic culture, how was information collected for texts such as public dictionaries ?
Often the information for these text were accumulated through hersay, personal authentication and eye witness accounts.
The Banmin cho¯ho¯ki (Every-body’s Treasury, 1692) contained what kind of infomation?
Lists of courtly and shogunal personnel, era names and annual rituals, the productivity totals and castle towns of the provinces, the tropes of vernacular poetry, the major roads of Kyoto, the highways of the nation and more.
What were the limits to the information library?
Limited language translation, western books were reserved for high officials, not allowing social knowledge to be converted to social science, censorship was very prevalent, especially on sensitive subjects such as religion
What was the term used for the practice of disciplining data ?
classification