Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan / / ed. by Erich Pauer, Russelle Meade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Hashimoto, Takehiko,; Horiuchi, Annick,; Jun, Suzuki,; Mamiko, Itō,; Mathias, Regine,; Nishiyama, Takahiro,; Pauer, Erich,; Pertwee, Nicholas,
• HerausgeberIn: Meade, Russelle,; Pauer, Erich,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Japanese History of Technology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA’s* first international conference addressing the long-neglected field relating to the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan from the Edo to the Meiji periods, this volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject, from Hashimoto Takehiko’s detailed examination of Tanaka Hisashige’s ‘Myriad Year Clock’, Regine Mathias’s paper on mining and smelting, and Erich Pauer’s overview of Japanese technical books in the pre-modern era, to Suzuki Jun’s detailed account of boiler-making in late nineteenth-century Japan. * Centre Européen d’Études Japonaises d’Alsace, 2017

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remarks on the History of Technology in Japan -- 1. Production Techniques in Early Modern Japan as seen through ‘Famous Products of Japan from Mountain and Sea, Illustrated’ (Nippon sankai meisan zue, 1799) -- 2. Vehicles of Knowledge: Japanese Technical Drawings in the Pre-modern Era, 1600–1868 -- 3. Dissemination of Knowledge and Technology: The Extensive Range of Exhibitions in Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4. Knowledge on Mining and Smelting and Its Dissemination in the Edo Period -- 5. Tanaka Hisashige and His Myriad Year Clock: Its Technological Characteristics and Historical Background -- 6. A Statistical Analysis of Tōkyō Meikō Kagami (with a Focus on Highly Skilled Metalwork Craftsmen) -- 7. Boiler Manufacture in Late-nineteenth Century Japan: From First Beginnings to Nationwide Expansion -- Appendix: Selected Sources on the Japanese History of Technology (especially on series) -- List of Contributors -- Index