- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
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- Introduction
- Balloon Ride
- Systems of Writing Things Down
- The Paper Trail
- Introduction
- I. Discourse Networks of Meiji Japan
- 1. Standardizing Measures
- Standing-Reserve
- Standards and Conventions
- 2. Telegraph and Post
- Maejima Hisoka
- Instant Messaging
- Secret Correspondences
- 3. Wiring Meiji Japan: From Hokusai’s Postcard to Mokuami’s Telegraph
- The Postcard That Goes Undelivered
- Telegraphing the Imagined Community from Yasukuni Shrine
- 1. Standardizing Measures
- II. Scripting National Language
- 4. Japanese in Plain English
- Mori Arinori and the Anglophone Roots of Modern Japanese
- Nishi Amane’s Case for Romanization
- 5. Phonetic Shorthand
- Phonography and Verbal Photography
- Hooked on Phonics
- 6. Parsing Visible Speech
- Alexander Melville Bell and the Human Speaking Machine
- Isawa Shūji and Imperial Linguistics
- 4. Japanese in Plain English
- III. “Writing Things Down Just as They Are”
- 7. Regime Change
- Utsushi: Between Calligraphy and Photography
- Hanashi: Constellations of Speech
- True History, Duly Noted: Yano’s Political Novel Illustrious Statesmen of Thebes
- 8. The Haunted Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
- The Transcriptive Realism of Sanyūtei Enchō’s The Peony Lantern
- The Transparency of the Novel
- 7. Regime Change
- IV. The Limits of Realism
- 9. Masaoka Shiki’s Scribblings
- The Statistical Death of Japanese Poetry
- Sketching from Life
- 10. Scratching Records with Sōseki’s Cat
- Feline Amanuensis
- The Discourse of Noses
- 9. Masaoka Shiki’s Scribblings
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 387
Writing Technology in Meiji Japan
A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
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Publication Date: 01/18/2016
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