JAPAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edo Period, Unequal Treaty, Main Source

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28 Feb 2018
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19th century japan: bakumatsu (late edo) to the menji era (1868) By late edo, townspeople (artisan, merchants, and lower classes) were the most represented in popular culture. However, there wasa govt ban on publishing about current events = no news. Yet, books were central to popular culture, most were illustrated, mixing text and image. Transition from rice to money/cash economy leads to modernization and the rise of popular culture in japan and popular culture in japan in general. Tourism starts becoming more popular too but the way you got somewhere was through walking. Unique for their construction methods: long fiber washi paper, thread sewn binding. Woodblock print (most common form 17th to early 20th c) Shaho, manuscript hand-copied (common in temple culture and lending bookstores) Rental book stores (renting is affordable to almost everyone) Genres of boosk available in mid to late do. Combo of scenes and dialogue, illegal but widely available.

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