Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Japanese Culture Through Rare Books
This course explored the unique features and cultural background of traditional Japanese books. It covered Japanese old book binding styles to the development of Japanese literature and scholarship using more than a hundred rare books from Keio University’s library including one from the 8th century.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Takahiro Sasaki
Professor at Keio University's Institute of Oriental Classics
Keio University
Professor Wataru Ichinohe
Associate Professor at Keio University's Institute of Oriental Classics
Keio University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how old Japanese characters evolved into their current format.
- Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between different binding styles, contents, and values of books.
- Describe how books affected the democratization of education in Japan.
- Investigate images from old books and identify the culutural and historical background of each image.
Syllabus
- How to handle old Japanese books
- Evolution of scripts and materials used in traditional Japanese books
- Binding methods and the practice of reformatting
- The hierarchy of book formats in traditional Japan
- Relationship between format and content in traditional Japanese books
- Genre and binding
- History of illustrated manuscripts and printed illustrated books
- History of printing and publishing in Japan
- Printed books and the development of scholarship in early-modern Japan
Issued on 1st April 2017
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