The Japanese Early-Modern Publishing Market Unveiled: A Survey of Edo-Period Booksellers’ Catalogues
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This article explores an under-researched area of the Japanese early-modern (1603-1867) publishing history, by examining the catalogues called shojaku mokuroku. First, it analyses the publication history, the editorial process and the contents of these catalogues. By doing so, it offers a new definition of shojaku mokuroku, it reflects upon the growth and the variety which characterize the production of Kyoto publishers/booksellers and proves to what extent these publishers constituted a self-conscious, self-promoting, business-driven unified body. Second, by considering the order that was given to books in shojaku mokuroku, it explores what this order reveals about the publishing market in early-modern Japan and shows revealing differences with widely-held views on Japanese early-modern literature. Third, it investigates how these catalogues were used in the Edo period across the country and reflects upon what the circulation of these catalogues tell us about the circulation of books outside urban centres.
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See Kornicki, The Book in Japan, 176. Hashiguchi (Hashiguchi, Wahon e no shōtai, 103) defines them as catalogues of zaikobon 在庫本 (books in stock) and specifies that they account for the whole production of books in Kyoto. Nakano Mitsutoshi (Nakano, Wahon no susume, 32) calls them shuppanbutsu sōmokuroku 出版物総目録, i.e., ‘union catalogues of published books’.
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Hashiguchi, Wahon e no shōtai, 103. He also states that ‘shojaku mokuroku are, on the whole, catalogues of new publications produced in Kyoto’: Hishiguchi, Wahon e no shōtai, 105.
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See Inoue, Nihon kotenseki shoshigaku jiten, 194; Hashiguchi, Wahon e no shōtai, 108; Makita, Keihan shoseki shōshi; Munemasa, Kyōto shorin nakama kiroku, 329-30.
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Hashiguchi, Wahon e no shōtai, 100. Useful for understanding the role of Nichirenshū in the publishing industry is Kanmuri, Kinsei Nichirenshū shuppanshi kenkyū.
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Konta, Edo no hon’yasan, 9; Inoue, Nihon kotenseki shoshigaku jiten, 572, 313; Hashiguchi, Wahon nyūmon, 63-5; Hashiguchi, Zoku wahon nyūmon, 51; Nakano, Edo no hanpon, 111; Suzuki, Ezōshiya, 7, 217-8.
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Hashigushi, Zoku wahon nyūmon, 60-82; Kinsei mokkatsujiban tokushū.
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For details see Nagatomo, Kinsei kashihon’ya no kenkyū, 144-161.
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The Japanese Early-Modern Publishing Market Unveiled: A Survey of Edo-Period Booksellers’ Catalogues
In: East Asian Publishing and SocietySearch for other papers by Laura Moretti in
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This article explores an under-researched area of the Japanese early-modern (1603-1867) publishing history, by examining the catalogues called shojaku mokuroku. First, it analyses the publication history, the editorial process and the contents of these catalogues. By doing so, it offers a new definition of shojaku mokuroku, it reflects upon the growth and the variety which characterize the production of Kyoto publishers/booksellers and proves to what extent these publishers constituted a self-conscious, self-promoting, business-driven unified body. Second, by considering the order that was given to books in shojaku mokuroku, it explores what this order reveals about the publishing market in early-modern Japan and shows revealing differences with widely-held views on Japanese early-modern literature. Third, it investigates how these catalogues were used in the Edo period across the country and reflects upon what the circulation of these catalogues tell us about the circulation of books outside urban centres.
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