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Seth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan

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      Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center
      Published 7 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9780674244498
      978-0674244498
      ISBN-10 0674244494
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Communication studies Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Geography ELT & Literary Studies Literature: history and criticism

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      Book Synopsis
      Seth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.

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