Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan

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List of Figures, Maps, and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Literacy in Early Tokugawa Villages	p. 9
Signatures, Ciphers, and Seals	p. 44
Rural Culture and the Rise of Provincial Literati in the Eighteenth Century	p. 80
The Expansion of Popular Literacy in the Nineteenth Century	p. 113
Direct Measures of Popular Literacy in the Nineteenth Century	p. 137
Epilogue: Illiteracy in Meiji Japan	p. 162
Appendix	p. 197
Notes	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 229
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