Peter Kornicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 522991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Kornicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kornicki |
| SIGNATURE | KORNICKI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book, written by Julie Nelson Davis, Eri Mizukane, Nicholas Purgett, Maria Puzyreva and Linda Chance
Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900
A Glimpse of a Japanese Bookshop in 1891
Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan
Mauritius in Danger
When the war began in 1939, Edward Twining was working for the British Colonial Service on the island of Mauritius and entirely on his own initiative began monitoring Vichy French signals emanating from Madagascar and Réunion. In this he was helped by his sister-in-law, Evelyn DuBuisson, who turned out to have a talent for codebreaking. After the outbreak of war with Japan, Mauritius was in danger of invasion but Twining began to monitor Japanese…
Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction, written by Shi Jinbo and translated by Li Hansong
The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey
Reviewed by: The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey Peter Kornicki (bio) The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media. By Nathan Shockey. Columbia University Press, New York, 2020. xiv, 314 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.00, E-book. In his fascinating and stimulating book, Nathan Shockey takes us back to the world of late Meiji and Taisho Japan, w…
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script. By Zev Handel
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script. By Zev Handel. Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, vol. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv + 369. $59
Korean Books in Japan: From the 1590s to the End of the Edo Period
This article examines the evidence for the importation of Korean books into Japan, including texts of both Korean authorship and Chinese authorship. Although Korean books had certainly reached Japan well before the 1590s there can be little doubt that the Japanese invasions of Korea in the last decade of the sixteenth century resulted in the widespread looting of Korean books and the arrival in Japan of Korean books on an unprecedented scale. How…
American Oriental Society and the First Japanese Book Printed in the United States (1855)
Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-1854 was more than just a diplomatic mission: it also had scientific objectives and for the officers and crews it was in addition an opportunity to do some shopping. Among the goods bought in Japan (Shimoda and Hakodate) were various books, some of which were donated to the American Oriental Society. In 1855 the Lippincott Company of Philadelphia published a facsimile of a Japanese illustrated book, w…
Korean Books in Japan before Hideyoshi's Invasion
This article draws upon the fragmentary evidence in various Japanese sources, mostly from the Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi periods, to examine the extent and nature of imports of books from Korea to Japan before Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in the 1590s. Some of the evidence comes from historical chronicles, but the Ishinpō, a voluminous compendium of medicine, also refers to some Korean texts, and the Annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty contain furt…
Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic by Gergana Ivanova
Reviewed by: UnbindingThe Pillow Book : The Many Lives of a Japanese Classicby Gergana Ivanova Peter Kornicki (bio) Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic. By Gergana Ivanova. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xii, 226 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.99, E-book. Like all works of Japanese classical literature, Sei Shōnagon's Makura no sōshi(The pillow book) circulated only in manuscript until it was first printed in th…
Japan’s hand-written culture: Confessions of a Print Addict
To visit Japanese government and business offices in the 1960s or 1970s was to take a step back in time for Australians, Europeans, New Zealanders and North Americans, who tended to take the typewr
Book Roads and Routes
Chinese texts travelled in extraordinary quantities to distant parts of East Asia, and this chapter charts the movements of books. Most of the movement was centripetal, from China to neighbouring societies, and rather than being foisted on neighbouring societies Chinese books were instead actively sought and taken home by envoys, monks, and other travellers. The flow of books continued right up to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Chines…
Scripts and Writing
This chapter deals with the diversity of scripts in East Asia. By the time that neighbouring societies came into contact with Chinese writing, it had already gone a long way towards standardization and had already generated a substantial literature. In many of those societies the Chinese script was used to write official and then literary texts in Sinitic, and subsequently to write the vernaculars using characters phonographically. This was true …
Material Texts
This chapter deals with the forms in which Chinese texts reached neighbouring societies and were reproduced there. Thanks to the spread of paper-making technology, the materials with which to make manuscripts were plentiful, and in fact manuscripts continued to form an important part of book production even after the advent of print. The earliest kind of printing was xylography (woodblock printing), which was probably first put to use in China in…
Reading Sinitic Texts in the Vernaculars
Chinese texts first reached neighbouring societies in the form of raw texts, without any aids to understanding or even punctuation. Manuscripts recovered from Dunhuang, though, testify to the need for such aids either in the form of written punctuation for reading aloud or in the form of dry-point glosses made with a stylus or the wooden end of a brush: these dry-point glosses are invisible at first sight but the indentations in the paper serve a…
The Oral Dimension
This chapter first examines the oral dimension of the dissemination of Sinitic texts in East Asia. Although a few individuals who had spent many years in China or who were of Chinese origin were able to read Chinese texts in some form of Chinese pronunciation, this was not the case even for most members of the elites, for few spent much time in China. In most societies, conventional pronunciations developed for Chinese characters and these confor…
The Chinese Buddhist Canon and Other Buddhist Texts
Although Buddhism is now seen as a scriptural religion, its earliest oral transmission to various language communities necessitated the use of translation, and the tolerance of translation in Buddhism is demonstrated by the many languages and scripts in which excavated early fragments of texts were written. Subsequently, translation into Chinese created what is known as the Chinese Buddhist canon, which was and still is normative in Japan, Korea,…
Primers, Medical Texts, and Other Works
This chapter follows on from Chapters 8 and 9, which were devoted to Buddhist and Confucian texts, and applies a similar analysis to a variety of other texts with a focus on those that were subjected to a process of vernacularization. The first genre discussed is that of primers, which initially existed solely to teach the young the elements of Sinitic. Second, medical texts are examined in some depth, for the botanic and linguistic diversity of …
Conclusion
This chapter draws together the arguments made in the earlier chapters and addresses the question of nationalism, in particular after the Manchu conquest of China and the start of the Qing dynasty in 1644, which altered perceptions of China significantly in East Asia. The cultural pride that developed in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam led to greater interest in the vernaculars but it did not until later lead to a rejection of Sinitic, for until the ea…
Classics, Examinations, and Confucianism
This chapter deals with the Confucian tradition in East Asia and the role played by the Chinese classics in education and learning throughout East Asia and in the civil service examinations which were held in most neighbouring societies. The Chinese classics were by no means easy to understand, so commentarial traditions emerged in China at an early stage; the difficulties were compounded for those who spoke quite different languages, and there w…
Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia
This book is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, and for this purpose East Asia includes not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam but also other societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. It takes the reader from the early centuries of the Common Era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the cent…
Frank Daniels' report on the wartime Japanese courses at Soas
This article consists mainly of an annotated transcription of a report on the wartime courses in Japanese at SOAS prepared by Frank Daniels in August 1945. An introduction is provided setting his report in context and providing some of the background relating to the attempts by SOAS, well before the outbreak of war with Japan, to persuade the government that training needed to begin without delay. These attempts were unsuccessful, but Frank Danie…
Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan Pitelka
Reviewed by: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan Pitelka Peter Kornicki (bio) Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. By Morgan Pitelka. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2016. xviii, 221 pages. $49.00. The cover of this book shows a Yoshitoshi print, full of the lurid aniline purples and crimsons beloved of early Meiji print artists, in …
Public Display and Changing Values. Early Meiji Exhibitions and Their Precursors
Le but de cet article est d'evaluer l'evolution des expositions de produits naturels ou d'objets manufactures au Japon a la fin de la periode Tokugawa et au debut de l'ere Meiji, leurs liens avec la societe urbaine et industrielle, les objets exposes, leur valaur en tant qu'objet et matiere premiere et leurs diverses categories. Cette evaluation a ete realisee a partir de l'etude de l'exposition de 1872 a Wakayama, et du contexte des expositions …
The Publisher's Go-Between: Kashihonya in the Meiji Period
The publisher is the bride's parents, the readers are the bridegroom, and the kashihonya is the go-between
Narrative of a catastrophe: Musashi abumi and the Meireki fire
Asai Ryōi's Musashi abumi (1661) deals with the catastrophic fire that devastated Edo in 1657. Interest has hitherto centred on the degree to which it is a factual record, but this has been at the expense of its literary features, particularly the anecdotal elements and the humour. In this article I focus on these peculiar narrative features, which it shares with other seventeenth-century disaster narratives, and seek to explain their origins and…
Japaneseness and the History of the Book
The Enmeiin Affair of 1803: The Spread of Information in The Tokugawa Period
IT IS a commonplace in the cultural history of Japan that the commercial publisher came into his own in the Tokugawa period and made as if to replace the manuscript with the printed book. But notwithstanding the spread of the printed word, manuscript traditions survived and throughout the Tokugawa period a large number of works circulated only in the form of shahon X, (manuscript books). Some were simply manuscript copies of printed works, and ot…
Literacy Revisited: Some Reflections on Richard Rubinger's Findings
No one has done more than Richard Rubinger in recent years to explore the parameters of literacy in Japan, and his recent article in MN 55:2 (Summer 2000) should raise awareness of an issue that is often taken somewhat for granted but which impinges significantly on our understanding of Meiji society.1 Literacy is an uncommonly slippery issue, but it is not one that can properly be evaded, and Rubinger is to be thanked for having brought it to ou…
Julius Klaproth and His Works
Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth
1. Notes on the kuji David Waterhouse 2. The worship of Confucius in ancient Japan James McMullen 3. An early anthropologist? Oe no Masafusa's A record of fox spirits Ivo Smits 4. Religion in the life of Minamoto Yoritomo and the early Kamakura bakufu Martin Collcutt 5. Rethinking Japanese folk religion: a study of Kumano Shugen Miyake Hitoshi 6. Keeping the faith: bakuhan policy towards religions in seventeenth-century Japan Peter Nosco 7. Heave…
European japanology at the end of the seventeenth century
Attaining just a glimmer of an understanding of Chinese or Japanese in the seventeenth century required prodigious feats of imagination and the abandonment of widely-held convictions about the nature of language. Progress towards a rational and sophisticated understanding was held up by persuasive but fantastical theories to which lifetimes were devoted in vain. In their very different ways both languages were subversive of contemporary notions o…
The Art of the Japanese Book
The Survival of Tokugawa Fiction in The Meiji Period
Nishiki no Ura. An Instance of Censorship and the Structure of a Sharebon
Nishiki no Ura. An Instance of Censorship and the Structure of a Sharebon
The Publisher's Go-Between: Kashihonya in the Meiji Period
The publisher is the bride's parents, the readers are the bridegroom, and the kashihonya is the go-between
Notes on some former Kashihonya books in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Most collections of Japanese wood-block printed books contain some items that were once in the possession of the circulating libraries known as kashihonya and the library of the School is no exception. Kashihonya were certainly in existence by the Genroku period (1688–1704), for the collection Haikai sugatanazo , which was published in 1703, includes the verse, Karihon no kakidashi ga kuru toshizakai ‘The year's end—when the bills come in for boo…
The Survival of Tokugawa Fiction in The Meiji Period
The Enmeiin Affair of 1803: The Spread of Information in The Tokugawa Period
IT IS a commonplace in the cultural history of Japan that the commercial publisher came into his own in the Tokugawa period and made as if to replace the manuscript with the printed book. But notwithstanding the spread of the printed word, manuscript traditions survived and throughout the Tokugawa period a large number of works circulated only in the form of shahon X, (manuscript books). Some were simply manuscript copies of printed works, and ot…
Catalogue of The Nordenskiold Collection of Japanese Books in The Royal Library
Disraeli and the Meiji Novel
The Reform of Fiction in Meiji Japan
The Reform of Fiction in Meiji Japan
Eirakuya Toshiro, Publisher at Nagoya: A Contribution to The History of Publishing in 19th Century Japan
Japanische Parodie im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zum Nise-Monogatari
Das Kibyoshi `Happyakuman ryo Kogane no Kamibana' von Santo Kyoden (1791): Ein Beitrag zur Edition Japanischer Texte der Edo-Zeit
The Art of the Japanese Book
Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections
Foreword Introduction Guide to the contents of the catalogue Table of era names The catalogue Appendix Plates Title index Concordance
European japanology at the end of the seventeenth century
Attaining just a glimmer of an understanding of Chinese or Japanese in the seventeenth century required prodigious feats of imagination and the abandonment of widely-held convictions about the nature of language. Progress towards a rational and sophisticated understanding was held up by persuasive but fantastical theories to which lifetimes were devoted in vain. In their very different ways both languages were subversive of contemporary notions o…
Public Display and Changing Values. Early Meiji Exhibitions and Their Precursors
Le but de cet article est d'evaluer l'evolution des expositions de produits naturels ou d'objets manufactures au Japon a la fin de la periode Tokugawa et au debut de l'ere Meiji, leurs liens avec la societe urbaine et industrielle, les objets exposes, leur valaur en tant qu'objet et matiere premiere et leurs diverses categories. Cette evaluation a ete realisee a partir de l'etude de l'exposition de 1872 a Wakayama, et du contexte des expositions …
Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in The British Library Printed Before 1700
The catalogue and how to use it glossary of bibliographical and literary terms (Japanese and English) used in the catalogue periods of Japanese history. The catalogue: Chinese works Buddhist works Japanese works. Indexes and appendices: index of Japanese titles index of Chinese and Sanskrit titles index of Japanese names index of Chinese, Indian and European names. Appendices: lists of libraries quoted in the catalogue list of books in the catalo…
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan
Preface Notes to the reader Glossary and abbreviations 1. Periods in Japanese and Chinese history 2. Geography 3. History 4. Language and literature 5. Thought and religion 6. Arts and crafts 7. Society 8. Politics 9.
Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth
1. Notes on the kuji David Waterhouse 2. The worship of Confucius in ancient Japan James McMullen 3. An early anthropologist? Oe no Masafusa's A record of fox spirits Ivo Smits 4. Religion in the life of Minamoto Yoritomo and the early Kamakura bakufu Martin Collcutt 5. Rethinking Japanese folk religion: a study of Kumano Shugen Miyake Hitoshi 6. Keeping the faith: bakuhan policy towards religions in seventeenth-century Japan Peter Nosco 7. Heave…
Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese Books and Maps in Public Collections in the Netherlands
Japanese medical and other books at the Wellcome Institute
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), the founder of the Wellcome Trust, left at his death a superb collection of oriental materials relating to medicine which is now housed in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.1 Although he had a keen interest in China, which is reflected in the substantial collection of Chinese materials, he never made any systematic effort to acquire Japanese materials. Nevertheless, the Japanese collectio…
Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth
Japaneseness and the History of the Book
The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century
This study deals with all aspects of the history of the book in Japan, from the production of manuscripts and printed books to book-collecting, libraries, censorship and readership. It also sets books in the context of Japan's cultural ties with China, Korea and Parhae. The focus is on the history of both texts and physical books. This encompasses not only books in Japanese but also books in Chinese by Chinese and Korean authors, and some Western…
Japanese Books in Perspective
History (60 works) · Art (41 works) · Japanese History and Culture (39 works) · History (26 works) · Literature (26 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (22 works) · Ancient history (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Political science (18 works)