Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pauer, Erich; Meade, Russelle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA's

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040772232
• Artikelnr.: 75563982

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.