江戸幕府刊行物集成
Edo Bakufu Kankobutsu Shusei
A collection of publications under the Tokugawa Shogunate, 1599-1868
Publication year: 1987
Text: Japanese
Compilers: Kazuma Kawase, Norio Iwakura and Tamotsu Fukui
35mm positive, 120 reels
Index: 41 pages
Price: JPY2,040,000
Contents
Beginning from Fushimi and Suruga woodtype editions by Ieyasu Tokugawa, Edo Shogunate
published numerous academic books. Toward the end of Edo period, books on Western studies and
Western art of war began to be published from the institutions under Edo Shogunate. These publications acted as a driving power of early modern publishing culture of Japan.