Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan: 46 (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 46) - Hardcover

'This volume is a most welcome contribution, shedding light upon early modern learning practices in a variety of specific fields while the individual essays illustrate an overarching trend toward facilitation of self-directed study.'
Matthew Fraleigh, New Asia Books, (http: //www.newasiabooks.org/)

'This ambitious volume works at the nexus of three fields: book history, intellectual history, and the history of education. Scholars of early modern
Japanese intellectual history and education history will find much to learn from the wealth of primary sources the volume's contributors bring to light, and, indeed, the volume's editors seem to have conceptualized the study specifically with these advanced audiences in mind. (..) the volume also addresses the globally comparative field of book history. One of the real delights of Listen, Copy, Read is that it brings insights from the best Japanese scholarship on this subject into conversation with vibrant scholarly discussions of reading, publishing, authorship, and learning in Europe and North America.'
Charlotte Eubanks, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 43/1, (Winter 2017)

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in the acquisition of knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period.