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[4] Mary Elizabeth Berry. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in Early Modern Japan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
[5] Eiko Ikegami. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. (New York: Cambridge, 2005).
[6] Tokyo Daigaku Shiryo Hensan-jo fūzoku gazō shiryō kaiseki senta, ed. Fūsetsudome chū gazō shiryō ichiran (kō) fu: bakumatsu ishinki minshū fūshi mokuroku (Tokyo: Tokyo daigaku shiryō hensan-jo, March 31, 1999), Miyachi Masato, “Fūsetsudome kara mita bakumatsu shakai no tokushitsu: ‘kōron’ sekai no tanshoteki seiritsu,” Bakumatsu ishinki no shakaiteki seijishi kenkyū, ed. Miyachi Masato (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1999).
[7] M. William Steele, Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History (New York: Routledge, 2003).
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Further Readings
Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Ikegami, Eiko. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. New York: Cambridge, 2005.
Jackson, Terrence. Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016.
Linhart, Sepp. “Kawaraban—Enjoying the News when News was Forbidden,” Written Texts/Visual Texts: Woodblock-Printed Media in Early Modern Japan. Eds. Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005.
Shimoda Hiraku. Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
Smits, Gregory. “Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints,” Journal of Social History. Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer 2006).
Steele, M. William. Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Wert, Michael. Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.
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