Rubinger, Richard, 1943-

Popular literacy in early modern Japan [electronic resource] / Richard Rubinger. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. - xii, 238 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227) and index.

Literacy in early Tokugawa villages -- Signatures, ciphers, and seals -- Country culture and the rise of provincial literati in the eighteenth century -- The nineteenth-century expansion of popular literacy -- Direct measures of popular literacy in the nineteenth century.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Literacy--History.--Japan
Popular education--History.--Japan


Electronic books.

LC157.J3 / R83 2007

302.2/2440952