Japan in Print
| Author | : Mary Elizabeth Berry |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2007-08 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780520254176 |
| ISBN 13 | : 0520254171 |
| Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.