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...

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