Customer Review: This is a very useful study of the history of the book (defined rather broadly) in Japan. It is well written and makes interesting even topics that at first glance seem inherently dull--the chapter on bibliographies and catalogs, for example. Kornicki combines extensive old-fashioned archival... more info
Customer Review: Of all the Satow-related books which I have published so far, this one is probably the most revealing of the man in a personal sense. Ernest Satow's diaries ("journals") are indeed very full and detailed records of daily events which have their own value for historians, and his best-known classic... more info
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