Shoseki Bunka Shiryo Ron

[Machine Translation] Primary historical documents related to the enjoyment of books are unexpectedly scarce. In order to depict the culture and history of books, it is necessary to look not only at the books themselves, but also at the inscriptions left on them and the fragmented materials in their vicinity. This book vividly reveals the development of Japan's book culture through the traces of people's activities that have never been dealt with head-on, such as leaflets, postcards, stamps on books, and fragments of documents related to copyrights, prices, and lending and borrowing. This is the long-awaited history of the book culture by a leading scholar of the history of books.

書籍の享受に関わる一次史料は思いのほか少ない。その文化・歴史を描き出すためには、書籍そのもののみならず、そこに残された書き入れや、周辺にある断片化された資料へも目を向ける必要がある。チラシやハガキ、書籍におされたハンコ、そして版権や価格、貸借に関する文書の断片など、これまで真正面から取り扱われることのなかった人々の営為の痕跡から、日本の書籍文化の展開を鮮やかに浮かび上がらせる。書物文化史研究の第一人者による待望の史料論。