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Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Erich Pauer, Russelle Meade (eds)

Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

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
Editors

Erich Pauer

Erich Pauer, born in Vienna in 1943, specializes in Japanese economic history and the history of technology. He has taught at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg (Germany) and has published widely on these subjects. He is currently affiliated with the CEEJA (Centre Européen d’Études Japonaises d’Alsace) in Colmar, France.
Title
Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Editors
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€ 104,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9781912961009
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
224
Language
English
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14 x 22 cm
Series
Japanese History of Technology
Categories
East Asia and North East Asia
Science and Technology
Discipline
Asian Studies
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Remarks on the History of Technology in Japan
Erich PAUER
1. Production Techniques in Early Modern Japan as seen through ‘Famous Products of Japan from Mountain and Sea, Illustrated’ (Nippon sankai meisan zue, 1799)
Annick HORIUCHI
2. Vehicles of Knowledge: Japanese Technical Drawings in the Pre-modern Era, 1600–1868
Erich PAUER
3. Dissemination of Knowledge and Technology: The Extensive Range of Exhibitions in Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
IT? Mamiko
4. Knowledge on Mining and Smelting and Its Dissemination in the Edo Period
Regine MATHIAS
5. Tanaka Hisashige and His Myriad Year Clock: Its Technological Characteristics and Historical Background
HASHIMOTO Takehiko
6. A Statistical Analysis of To-kyo- Meiko- Kagami (with a Focus on Highly Skilled Metalwork Craftsmen)
NISHIYAMA Takahiro
7. Boiler Manufacture in Late-nineteenth Century Japan: From First Beginnings to Nationwide Expansion
SUZUKI Jun (Translated by Nicholas Pertwee)
Appendix: Selected Sources on the Japanese History of Technology (especially on series)
Erich PAUER
List of Contributors
Index

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