What were the chief characteristics of the earliest print culture in Japan? Explain.
Answers
Some interesting practices in Japan are as follows:
1. Printing introduced in Japan in around AD 768-770.
2. Pictures were printed on textiles,playing cards and paper money.
3. Printing of visual material led to interesting publishing practices like arranging for teahouse gatherings, establishing libraries and bookstore
4. An art form called 'Ukiyo-e' (‘pictures of the floating world’) or depiction of ordinary human experiences, especially urban
ones was also an innovation of the Japanese.
Explanation:
1. Buddhist monasteries from china introduced hand printing technology into Japan.
2. The oldest Japanese book printed in AD 868 in Diamond Sutra.
3. In Medieval Japan poets and prose writers were regularly published and books were cheap and abundant.
4. Printing of visual materials led to increasing publishing practices.
5. In the late 18th century in the flourishing urban circles city at Edo, illustrated collections of paintings depicted urban culture involving artisans, courtesans and tea house gathering.
6.Books for women, musical instruments, tea ceremony, flower arrangements, proper etiquettes were published.