![]() ![]() In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. ![]() After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the BookstoresĪ quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index. ![]()
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