Farewell from your educators

Now that you’ve made your way through the course we would like to thank you for staying with us until the end. Watch the video to see Professor Sasaki and Dr. Shiroto’s goodbye message.

We would like you to share what you found most interesting in this course and your thoughts about how Japanese paper culture compares to your own. Please write your message on the comments area.

Related courses from Keio University

This course can also be studied alongside the following two companion courses offered by Keio University on FutureLearn;

• “Japanese Culture Through Rare Books”
  You’ll enjoy learning how Japanese variety of book bindings and styles have been developed by looking into Japanese rare books. Also we’ll discuss the important role that the books played in cultural development.
• “Sino-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books”
  You’ll enjoy learning how Japanese culture has been influenced from Chinese culture by looking into rare books in Japan written in Chinese text.

Please join us if you have not taken them yet!

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You can now get extra benefits by upgrading this course, including:

Unlimited access to the course: Go at your own pace with unlimited access to the course for as long as it exists on FutureLearn.

A Certificate of Achievement: To help you demonstrate your learning we’ll send you a Certificate of Achievement when you become eligible.

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