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Cover -- Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 |
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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 Tokyo Meiko Kagami (with a Focus on Highly Skilled Metalwork Craftsmen) -- 7 Boiler Manufacture in Late-nineteenth Century Japan: From First Beginnings to Nationwide Expansion -- Selected Sources on the Japanese History of Technology (especially on series) -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject of the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Technology -- Japan -- History.
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Technology. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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History.
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Print version: 1912961008 9781912961009 (OCoLC)1134853044 |
| ISBN |
9781912961016 (electronic book) |
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1912961016 (electronic book) |
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1912961008 |
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9781912961009 |
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