・講談社『日本印刷文化史』の英語版



Preface-To readers

Introduction-Aiming at printing culture as science

Part1: Ancient times

Chapter1 Japanese printing started in the Nara era

Chapter2 Printing in the Heian era

-Missing links: The import of Sung

dynasty printing, Buddhist woodblock prints

Part2: Middle ages

Chapter3 Printing in the Kamakura era

-Publishing by temple gets into full swing

Chapter4 Expansion of printing through Gozan versions

and samurai

Part3: Early modern times

Chapter5 Japan's invasion of Korea

-What did Korean printing types bring to Japan?

Column1 Tensho Shonen Shisetsu (a delegation of young men

to Europe during the Tensho era) transported

the wooden printing press

Chapter6 The battles of printing and publishing primarily

led by Tokugawa Ieyasu

Chapter7 Sagabon and early modern Mokkatsuji-ban books

(wooden movable-type version)

Chapter8 Kyoto, Osaka and Edo

-The tale of three cities of publishing

Chapter9 Printing expanded behavioral culture of the Edo

period-Books, woodcut prints, printed materials

which helped traveling

Chapter10 The development of various studies and

the expansion of education

Chapter11 The progress of study and printing

-From herbalism botany

Chapter12 National isolation and parade

-Netherlands, Korea, Ryukyu and Ainu

Chapter13 Change of calendar and printing

Column2 Books on agriculture which spread agricultural

technology

Chapter14 The three major reforms in the Edo era and

printing-From the relationship between

politicians and the common people

Part4: Modern times

Chapter15 From the opening of the country

to the Meiji restoration

-Illutrated printing that expanded the image of

a new age

Column3 From Megane-e (optique pictures) to Banknotes

-The spread of copperplates prints

Chapter16 The Boshin War, and to the reforms

by the Meiji government

-The culture of movable-types

in late Tokugawa and Meiji eras

Chapter17 Convey“drawing techniques”

Column4 The movement to reform Japanese script

Chapter18 A capitalist society and the formation of

popular culture-printing in the Taisho era

Column5 From books in Japanese binding to books in

western binding

Column6 Textiles and seasonal products

-Congratulatory pictures which modern

industries created

Chapter19 The merits and demerits of printing in wartime

Part5: Present age

Chapter20 Rapid economic growth and variation of materials

Chapter21 Mass consumption society and printing

-A priod of promoting efficiency and

standardization

Chapter22 The history of library of Japan

The skills and materials of printing

-Elementary kowledge of the histry of Japanese printing

1: When did printing start?

2: Stamp and ink impression

3: Forms of plate printing (relief printing, intaglio,

and planography)

4: Tools used to rub and the machines used to print

5: Various kinds of paper

6: Sumi (black ink) and ink

7: Wood-block printing and letterpress printng

8: Xylographs and copperplates

Reference

Reference book guidance-To learn printing more deeply

Index for main items

Index for main persons

List of illustrations of each title page

List of writers and cooperators