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15 - Flows of People and Things in Early Modern Japan

Print Culture

from Part III - Social Practices and Cultures of Early Modern Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2024

By
Laura Nenzi
Edited by
David L. Howell
David L. Howell
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Summary

Despite the restrictions that had been imposed on domestic travel since the early seventeenth century – which included checkpoints and the need for travel permits – in early modern Japan people traveled, merchandise moved, and ideas circulated. Commercial publishers played a key role in promoting the flows of people and things, not only with guidebooks and travel itineraries, as one would expect, but also in unusual places, such as board games and parodies of sumo rankings. Their output illuminates the democratization of knowledge and the creation of an interconnected archipelago in early modern Japan. More broadly, it reflects the global expansion of the information industry and the rise of tourism in the nineteenth century, linking Tokugawa Japan to dynamics at play the world over.

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commercial publishingtravel bookscommoditiesglobal tourismbanzukeAkisato RitōSaitō GesshinsugorokuTōkaidōKyotoEdoOsaka
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The New Cambridge History of Japan , pp. 507 - 536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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