Description:
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
Review Quotes:
"This is anexcellent survey detailing Japanese learning and the transmission of, especially, 'traditional' knowledge by and for East Asianists in the arts and humanities." - Mitchell W. Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes University, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, Issue 16:3