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695: 131: 229:, in the 480s, a man named Gong Xuanyi (龔玄宜) styled himself Gong the Sage and "said that a supernatural being had given him a 'jade seal jade block writing,' which did not require a brush: one blew on the paper and characters formed." He then used his powers to mystify a local governor. Eventually he was dealt with by the governor's successor, who presumably executed Gong. Timothy Hugh Barrett postulates that Gong's magical jade block was actually a printing device, and Gong was one of the first, if not the first printer. The semi-mythical record of him therefore describes his usage of the printing process to deliberately bewilder onlookers and create an image of mysticism around himself. However, woodblock print flower patterns applied to silk in three colours have been found dated from the 260:. According to Mahayana beliefs, religious texts hold intrinsic value for carrying the Buddha's word and act as talismanic objects containing sacred power capable of warding off evil spirits. By copying and preserving these texts, Buddhists could accrue personal merit. As a consequence the idea of printing and its advantages in replicating texts quickly became apparent to Buddhists, who by the 7th century, were using woodblocks to create apotropaic documents. These Buddhist texts were printed specifically as ritual items and were not widely circulated or meant for public consumption. Instead they were buried in consecrated ground. The earliest extant example of this type of printed matter is a fragment of a dhāraṇī (Buddhist spell) miniature scroll written in Sanskrit unearthed in a tomb in 1389: 1516: 715: 593:. If they were lucky enough to get one, they thought nothing of copying the entire text out by hand, so they could recite it day and night. In recent years merchants engrave and print all manner of books belonging to the hundred schools, and produce ten thousand pages a day. With books so readily available, you would think that students' writing and scholarship would be many times better than what they were in earlier generations. Yet, to the contrary, young men and examination candidates leave their books tied shut and never look at them, preferring to amuse themselves with baseless chatter. Why is this? 336: 796: 1119:. They were mostly used for prayers and amulets. The technique may have spread from China or been an independent invention, but had very little impact and virtually disappeared at the end of the 14th century. In India the main importance of the technique has always been as a method of printing textiles, which has been a large industry since at least the 10th century. Nowadays wooden block printing is commonly used for creating beautiful textiles, such as block print saree, kurta, curtains, kurtis, dress, shirts, cotton sarees. 1774: 191: 1199: 2960:), p. 435: "Printing in Arabic appears in the Middle East within a century or so of becoming well established in China. Moreover, medieval Arabic chronicles confirm that the craft of paper making came to the Middle East from China by way of Central Asia, and one print was found in the excavation of the medieval Egyptian Red Sea port of al-Qusair al-Qadim where wares imported from China have been discovered. Nevertheless, it seems more likely that Arabic block printing was an independent invention". 1683: 865: 679:, "if no printed edition were available on the market, the hand-copied manuscript of a book would cost ten times as much as the printed work", and also, "once a printed edition appeared, the transcribed copy could no longer be sold and would be discarded". The result is that despite the mutual co-existence of hand-copied manuscripts and printed texts, the cost of the book had declined by about 90 percent by the end of the 16th century. As a result, literacy increased. In 1488, the 498: 886: 573:
together with standard commentaries, are all fully represented. When I was young and devoted myself to learning, there were only one or two scholars in every hundred who possessed copies of all the classics and commentaries. There was no way to copy so many works. Today, printed editions of these works are abundant, and officials and commoners alike have them in their homes. Scholars are fortunate indeed to have been born in such an era as ours!
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the almost instantaneous arrival of both xylography and movable type in Europe. The early Jesuit missionaries of late-16th-century China, for instance, had a similar distaste for wood-based printing for very different reasons. These Jesuits found that "the cheapness and omnipresence of printing in China made the prevailing wood-based technology extremely disturbing, even dangerous".
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fifteenth century most books in major libraries were still in manuscript, not in print. Almost to the end of the empire it remained cheaper to pay a copyist than to buy a printed book. Seven hundred and fifty years after the first imperially sponsored printed works in the Northern Song, the greatest book project of the eighteenth century, the
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Korean printing with movable metallic type developed mainly within the royal foundry of the Yi dynasty. Royalty kept a monopoly of this new technique and by royal mandate suppressed all non-official printing activities and any budding attempts at commercialization of printing. Thus, printing in early
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European book production began to catch up with China after the introduction of the mechanical printing press in the mid fifteenth century. Reliable figures of the number of imprints of each edition are as hard to find in Europe as they are in China, but one result of the spread of printing in Europe
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Other modern scholars such as Endymion Wilkinson hold a more conservative and skeptical view. While Wilkinson does not deny "China's dominance in book production from the fourth to the fifteenth century," he also insists that arguments for the Chinese advantage "should not be extended either forwards
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Only during the Ming and Qing dynasties did wooden and metal movable types see any considerable use, but the preferred method remained woodblock. Usage of movable type in China never exceeded 10 percent of all printed materials while 90 percent of printed books used the older woodblock technology. In
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Despite the appeal of moveable type, however, craftsmen soon decided that the semi-cursive and cursive script style of Japanese writings was better reproduced using woodblocks. By 1640 woodblocks were once again used for nearly all purposes. After the 1640s, movable type printing declined, and books
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is a method for dyeing textiles (usually silk) using wood blocks invented in the 5th–6th centuries in China. An upper and a lower block are made, with carved out compartments opening to the back, fitted with plugs. The cloth, usually folded a number of times, is inserted and clamped between the two
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in Kyoto and started publishing books using domestic wooden movable type printing-press instead of metal from 1599. Ieyasu supervised the production of 100,000 types, which were used to print many political and historical books. In 1605, books using domestic copper movable type printing-press began
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Woodblock printing also changed the shape and structure of books. Scrolls were gradually replaced by concertina binding (經摺裝) from the Tang period onward. The advantage was that it was now possible to flip to a reference without unfolding the entire document. The next development known as whirlwind
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to Qing China, also remarked with some amazement that the printing industry was "as free as in England, and the profession of printing open to everyone". The commercial success and profitability of woodblock printing was attested to by one British observer at the end of the nineteenth century, who
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Commentaries on printing in China from the 1990s on, which cite contemporary European observers with first-hand knowledge, complicate the traditional narrative. T. H. Barrett points out that only Europeans who had never seen Chinese woodblock printing in action tended to dismiss it, perhaps due to
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by elite scholars and collectors. The age of printing gave the act of copying by hand a new dimension of cultural reverence. Those who considered themselves real scholars and true connoisseurs of the book did not consider imprints to be real books. Under the elitist attitudes of the time, "printed
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The emperor went to the Directorate of Education to inspect the Publications Office. He asked Xing Bing how many woodblocks were kept there. Bing replied, "At the start of our dynasty, there were fewer than four thousand. Today, there are more than one hundred thousand. The classics and histories,
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was done through woodblock prints. The general assumption is that movable type did not replace block printing in places that used Chinese characters due to the expense of producing more than 200,000 individual pieces of type. Even woodblock printing was not as cost productive as simply paying a
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at the inner end, which reads: "Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong ". It is considered the world's oldest securely dated woodblock scroll. The Diamond sutra was closely followed by the
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As a result of block-printing technology, it became easier and cheaper to produce multiple copies of books quickly. By the eleventh century, the price of books had fallen by about one tenth what they had been before and as a result they were more widely disseminated. Nevertheless, even in the
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Following the maturation of woodblock printing, official, commercial, and private publishing businesses emerged while the size and number of collections grew exponentially. The Song dynasty alone accounts for some 700 known private collections, more than triple the number of all the preceding
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Block books, where both text and images are cut on a single block for a whole page, appeared in Europe in the mid-15th century. As they were almost always undated, and without statement of printer or place of printing, determining their dates of printing has been an extremely difficult task.
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In late Ming/early Qing China, cost for copying 20 to 30 pages was around .02 to .03 tael, which worked out to something like 0.005 tael per hundred characters, while a carver was typically paid 0.02 to 0.03 tael per hundred characters carved, and could carve 100 to 150 characters a
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blocks. By unplugging the different compartments and filling them with dyes of different colours, a multi-coloured pattern can be printed over quite a large area of folded cloth. The method is not strictly printing however, as the pattern is not caused by pressure against the block.
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with alternate openings of printed and blank pairs of pages. In the 14th century the folding was reversed outwards to give continuous printed pages, each backed by a blank hidden page. Later the sewn bindings were preferred rather than pasted bindings. Only relatively small volumes
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Around the year 1000, butterfly binding was developed. Woodblock prints allowed two mirror images to be easily replicated on a single sheet. Thus two pages were printed on a sheet, which was then folded inwards. The sheets were then pasted together at the fold to make a
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to printed books, and reproducing them for wider consumption. These books, now known as Kōetsu Books, Suminokura Books, or Saga Books, are considered the first and finest printed reproductions of many of these classic tales; the Saga Book of the Tales of Ise
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, printmaking enjoyed great popularity, especially in the illustration of books such as Buddhist texts, poems, novels, biographies, medical treatises, music, etc. The major center of production was initially in Kien-ngan
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Traditionally it has been assumed that the prevalence of woodblock printing in East Asia as a result of Chinese characters led to the stagnation of printing culture and enterprise in that region. S. H. Steinberg describes woodblock printing in his
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were the most common. There is still some controversy among scholars as to whether their introduction preceded or, the majority view, followed the introduction of movable type, with the range of estimated dates being between about 1440–1460.
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Inscribed seals made of metal or stone, especially jade, and inscribed stone tablets probably provided inspiration for the invention of printing. Copies of classical texts on tablets were erected in a public place in
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in 1930. Influenced by contemporary Russian engraving, this school dealt especially with popular, agricultural and military subjects for propaganda purposes, as is evident in the work of P'an Jeng and Huang Yong-yu.
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Despite the productive effect of woodblock printing, historian Endymion Wilkinson notes that it never supplanted handwritten manuscripts. Indeed, manuscripts remained dominant until the very end of Imperial China:
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as having "outlived their usefulness" and their printed material as "cheap tracts for the half-literate, which anyway had to be very brief because of the laborious process of cutting the letters". John Man's
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Imperial establishments such as the Three Institutes: Zhaowen Institute, History Institute, and Jixian Institute also followed suit. At the start of the dynasty the Three Institutes' holdings numbered 13,000
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In modern times, Chinese printing continued the tradition begun in medieval times. Black-and-white woodcuts were generally replaced by colored ones, achieved by printing successive runs with different inks.
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made note of "the exceedingly large numbers of books in circulation here and the ridiculously low prices at which they are sold". Two hundred years later the Englishman John Barrow, by way of the
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the one hundred and four maps of the Chinese Empire made by Jesuit missionaries were printed, as well as illustrations of his military victories, which he commissioned in Paris from the engraver
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was that public and private libraries were able to build up their collections and for the first time in over a thousand years they began to match and then overtake the largest libraries in China.
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Prior to the introduction of printing, the size of private collections in China had already seen an increase since the invention of paper. Fan Ping (215–84) had in his collection 7,000 rolls (
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observed during his trip to China that "even village children, ferrymen, and sailors" could read, although this applied mainly to the south, while northern China remained largely illiterate.
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sent the monk Yeoga to request from the Song a copy of the complete Buddhist canon. The request was granted in 991 when Seongjong's official Han Eongong visited the Song court. In 1011,
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makes a similar case: "wood-blocks were even more demanding than manuscript pages to make, and they wore out and broke, and then you had to carve another one – a whole page at a time".
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the first known example is a Diamond sutra of 1341, printed in black and red at the Zifu Temple in modern-day Hubei province. The earliest dated book printed in more than 2 colours is
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and Suminokura Soan. At their studio in Saga, Kyoto, the pair created a number of woodblock versions of the Japanese classics, both text and images, essentially converting
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one case an entire set of wooden type numbering 250,000 pieces was used for firewood. Woodblocks remained the dominant printing method in China until the introduction of
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in 1906. They have been dated to the reign of Wu Zetian using character form recognition. The oldest text containing a specific date of printing was discovered in the
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in China. When it is considered, too, that a block has been laboriously cut for each leaf, the cheapness of the result is only accounted for by the wideness of sale.
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in the 19th century, as the links between the characters require compromises when movable type is used which were considered inappropriate for sacred texts.
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The great pioneers in applying movable type printing press to the creation of artistic books, and in preceding mass production for general consumption, were
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paper scroll. A dhāraṇī sutra was printed in Japan around AD 770. One million copies of the sutra, along with other prayers, were ordered to be produced by
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and its surprisingly enduring nature, having survived completely intact over 760 years, it is considered the most accurate of Buddhist canons written in
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in 1591. However, western printing-press were discontinued after the ban on Christianity in 1614. The moveable type printing-press seized from Korea by
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dynasties for printing banknotes. The invention of movable type did not have an immediate effect on woodblock printing and it never supplanted it in
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However, copyists and manuscripts only continued to remain competitive with printed editions by dramatically reducing their price. According to the
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by the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century.
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can for even less. A penny Prayer-book, admittedly sold at a loss, cannot compete in mass of matter with many of the books to be bought for a few
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in the 20th century. And unlike China, the movable type system was kept mainly within the confines of a highly stratified elite Korean society:
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numbered 81,258 printing blocks, 52,330,152 characters, 1496 titles, and 6568 volumes. Due to the stringent editing process that went into the
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Between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, three—and five—color prints appeared. The oldest surviving print is the
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I can recall meeting older scholars, long ago, who said that when they were young they had a hard time getting their hands on a copy of
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Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter (2002) A Social History of the Media: from Gutenberg to the Internet, Polity, Cambridge, pp.15–23, 61–73.
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of 1377. This form of metal movable type was described by the French scholar Henri-Jean Martin as "extremely similar to Gutenberg's".
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edited in 1714–1715 a series of poems by Emperor Kangxi, which he illustrated with landscapes of the imperial summer residence at
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from the 12th century to the 13th century, many books were printed and published by woodblock printing at Buddhist temples in
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The Xiantong era (咸通 Xián tōng) ran from 860–874, crossing the reigns of Yi Zong (懿宗 Yì zōng) and Xi Zong (僖宗 Xī zōng), see
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ordered another set to be created and work began in 1237, this time only taking 12 years to complete. In 1248 the complete
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was due to the high literacy rate of Japanese people. The literacy rate of the Japanese by 1800 was almost 100% for the
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had already reached an astoundingly low price compared to what could be found in his home country. Of this, he said:
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process. Carving the blocks is skilled and laborious work, but a large number of impressions can then be printed.
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and the landscape painter Wáng Niè. It was noted for the quality of its polychrome and drawings, which influenced
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copyist to write out a book by hand if there was no intention of producing more than a few copies. Although
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noted that even before the arrival of western printing methods, the price of books and printed materials in
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It was initiated by the scholar and landscape painter Wáng Gài and expanded and prefaced by the art critic
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Shelagh Vainker in Anne Farrer (ed), "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas", 1990, British Museum publications,
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Science and Civilization in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 1: Paper and Printing
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art print. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term
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In the 20th century, the genre was revived by the writer Lou Siun, who founded a woodcut school in
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Pan, Jixing (1997). "On the Origin of Printing in the Light of New Archaeological Discoveries".
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depicting secular subjects became very popular among the common people and were mass-produced.
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issued the carving of their own set of the Buddhist canon, which would come to be known as the
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wrestlers, beautiful women, landscapes of sightseeing spots, historical tales, and so on, and
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characters. In one book, 2,100 characters were created, but 16% of them were used only once.
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Excellent images and descriptions of examples, mostly Chinese, from the Schoyen Collection
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Movable type never replaced woodblock printing in Korea. Indeed, even the promulgation of
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remarked upon the unforeseen effect an abundance of books had on examination candidates:
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to be published, but copper type did not become mainstream after Ieyasu died in 1616.
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cottager cannot buy anything like the amount of printed matter for his penny that the
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Allan H. Stevenson (Spring 1967). "The Quincentennnial of Netherlandish Blockbooks".
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introduced Hangeul, an alphabetic system, in the 15th century, Hangeul only replaced
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Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
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was printed in 1598, using a Korean moveable type printing press, at the order of
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China, the world's earliest printed text containing a date of production, AD 868 (
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Bronze plate for printing an advertisement for the Liu family needle shop at
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The Cambridge History of China Volume 8 The Ming Dynasty, 1368—1644, Part 2
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Korea served only the small, noble groups of the highly stratified society.
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Evidence of woodblock printing appeared in Korea and Japan soon afterward.
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62nd IFLA General Conference - Conference Proceedings - August 25–31, 1996
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with the techniques of Western paintings became popular, and the works of
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Not only did manuscripts remain competitive with imprints, they were even
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became commonplace while six individuals owned collections of over 30,000
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were mass-produced by conventional woodblock printing during most of the
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is one of the earliest works produced on a movable type press in Japan.
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Wood-Block Printing, by F. Morley Fletcher, Illustrated by A. W. Seaby
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Gift Exchange among States in East Asia During the Eleventh Century
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as well as a standard edition for East Asian Buddhist scholarship.
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and greatly developed Japanese woodblock printing culture such as
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established the technique of multicolor woodblock printing called
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Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400
2999:"Block Printing History, Types, Process and Materials To Be Used" 2157: 1835: 1698: 1508: 1437: 1395:, the earliest known book printed with movable metal type, 1377. 1349: 1345: 1127: 1046: 1029: 980: 931: 878: 874: 803: 683: 680: 448: 444: 401: 238: 135: 109: 100: 20: 164: 71:
or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in
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Izumi Munemura. (2010). The Surface Finishing Society of Japan.
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Treatise on the Paintings and Writings of the Ten Bamboo Studio
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Colour is very common in Asian woodblock printing on paper; in
1418: 1337: 1150: 1038: 730: 578: 536: 347:(960-1279). The world's oldest extant print advertising medium. 299: 806:
is one of the foremost Chogye Buddhist temples in South Korea.
36: 23:. For the related technique invented in the 18th century, see 3814:"Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" 3290:, Vol. 79, No. 2 (April -June , 1959), pp. 96–103 (103). 3087: 3077:
Master E.S., Alan Shestack, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967.
2152: 1720: 1706: 1602: 1564: 1446: 1430: 1409: 1341: 1234:. The earliest extant book printed using movable type is the 1107: 916: 607: 340: 199: 173: 80: 72: 68: 2697: 1403: 1393:
Jikji: Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Seon Masters
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Another outstanding series is the collection of twenty-nine
3825:—Numerous links to Online Resources and Other Organizations 3176: 3174: 2631: 2629: 2568: 2566: 1709: 1042: 2809:(PhD dissertation). University of Washington. p. 191. 2320: 2318: 2316: 2314: 2312: 2310: 2308: 2306: 2304: 1584:, like that of traditional handwritten books, adopted the 668:
books were for those who did not truly care about books".
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and an assortment of other texts were printed. During the
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Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures
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In countries using Arabic scripts, works, especially the
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Movable type used to print the earliest extant book, the
1330: 1142: 951: 540:(類書), a type of encyclopedic reference book used to help 522:, Chen Zhensun's collection lists 3,096 titles in 51,180 3268: 3171: 3137: 3135: 3122: 3120: 3105: 2626: 2563: 700:
Painting Manual of the Garden as Large as a Mustard Seed
3255:. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 330. 3021: 3019: 2747: 2745: 2743: 2301: 1298:
We have an extensive penny literature at home, but the
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c. 1139–1193. Metal movable type was used in the Song,
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A few specimen of wood block printing, possibly called
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and his cousin Xiao Mai both had collections of 30,000
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characters arranged primarily by rhyming scheme, from
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Chinese book-binding methods, from the V&A Museum
3359:(in Japanese). Printing Museum, Tokyo. Archived from 3159: 3132: 3117: 1115:, have been excavated from a 10th-century context in 743:
Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Paintings
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Needham, Joseph; Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin (11 July 1985).
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Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
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Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
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Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R., eds. (2013).
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correspondences between the Old and New Testaments:
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sutra, was also discovered and dated to 690 to 699.
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The earliest woodblock printing known is in colour—
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Early printing technique using carved wooden blocks
3671:Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print 3530:. Pelican History of Art (3rd ed.). Penguin. 3523: 3450:. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 3443: 3293: 3073: 3071: 3037: 2859:The Past, Present and Future of Printing in Japan. 2728: 2614: 2602: 2590: 2578: 2549:. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 830. 1423:Prescribed Texts for Rites of the Past and Present 1181:The method was also used extensively for printing 1053:are the most famous artists. In the 18th century, 3651:(in Spanish). Barcelona: Planeta-Agostini. 1988. 1691:Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces 249:, the blibography of the official history of the 3871: 3698:THE BOOK: The Story of Printing & Bookmaking 2890:. Konosuke Hashiguchi. (2013) Seikei University. 2278: 2203:Conservation and restoration of woodblock prints 950:. There were more than 600 rental bookstores in 770:, published in two parts between 1679 and 1701. 3388:(in Japanese). Letterpress Labo. Archived from 3068: 2330: 1519: 926:The mass production of woodblock prints in the 256:The rise of printing was greatly influenced by 1526: 998:Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko (Life of an Amorous Man) 2715: 2455:. Hyundae Bulkyo Media Center. Archived from 2396:. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress 2132: 1417:In 1234, cast metal movable type was used in 1024:, and these books were reprinted many times. 990:, art books, play scripts for the kabuki and 397:(百万塔陀羅尼, "1,000,000 towers/pagodas Darani"). 3866:, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. 2009. 3521: 3463:The Japan Federation of Printing Industries. 3250: 3216: 2501:. The book was thus prepared in the time of 1677: 764:ceramics. Equally famous is the compilation 689: 216:Coloured woodcut Buddha, 10th century, China 3673:. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky. 3624:(8th ed.). Delaware: Oak Knoll Books. 2869: 2867: 2283:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.  1340:) and, from the 17th century, in Sin-ngan ( 1202:A revolving table typecase with individual 1027:From the 17th century to the 19th century, 3734: 3700:, Oxford University Press, seventh edition 3410: 3381: 3223:. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 266. 3153: 2854: 2852: 2850: 2848: 2846: 2844: 2842: 2763: 2139: 2125: 1772: 1230:. Metal movable type also appeared in the 3743: 3695: 3274: 3217:Taylor, Insup; Taylor, Martin M. (1995). 3180: 3111: 2912:Shin hanga bringing ukiyo-e back to life. 2720:. Stanford University Press. p. 36. 2703: 2635: 2572: 2324: 1188: 3910:Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity 3647: 3586:Journal of the American Oriental Society 3498:"Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu (FH.910.83-98)" 3474:Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook 3288:Journal of the American Oriental Society 3286:Sohn, Pow-Key, "Early Korean Printing," 3204: 2864: 1681: 1514: 1402: 1387: 1197: 1126: 1100: 884: 863: 794: 713: 693: 496: 334: 211: 189: 163: 129: 35: 3864:China engraved block printing technique 3704: 3576: 3554: 3502:University of Cambridge Digital Library 3311: 3192: 3165: 3141: 3126: 2970: 2957: 2944: 2839: 2787: 2775: 2245: 2233: 2221: 1237:Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union 646:Complete Library of the Four Treasuries 518:. Zhou Mi's collection numbered 42,000 428:. Other disseminated works include the 245:for scholars and students to copy. The 27:. For Japanese woodblock printing, see 3872: 3619: 3441: 3025: 2813: 2649:"Dunhuang concertina binding findings" 2258: 2256: 2254: 1331:Decline of woodblock printing in China 3823:American Printing History Association 3713: 2874:Edo Picture Books and the Edo Period. 2751: 1617:. It was after the 1870s, during the 1226:around the year 1041 by the commoner 404:by 1000 AD and could be found in the 323:earliest extant printed almanac, the 116:produced mainly in the 15th century. 3818:University of Michigan Museum of Art 3665: 3638: 3299: 2996: 2799: 2734: 2620: 2608: 2596: 2584: 3709:(in Spanish). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. 3707:Summa Artis XX. El arte de la China 3417:Japan Science and Technology Agency 2544: 2489:"Printed copy of the Diamond Sutra" 2336: 2251: 1746:Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual 1131:Three episodes from the block book 266:Great spell of unsullied pure light 13: 3760:Centre for the History of the Book 3649:Diccionario Larousse de la Pintura 3312:Ikegami, Eiko (28 February 2005). 2388:Andrea Matles Savada, ed. (1993). 1480:in 1590, and was first printed in 719:Morning Shine on the Western Ridge 435:In 971 work began on the complete 40:The intricate frontispiece of the 14: 3931: 3753: 3557:The Woman Who Discovered Printing 3526:The Art and Architecture of China 3253:Science and Civilisation in China 2997:Khan, Irshad (10 February 2023). 1507:established a printing school at 1370:Conquests of the Emperor of China 1097:gained international popularity. 784: 767:Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden 400:Woodblock printing spread across 286:This coincides with the reign of 2477:Cultural Heritage Administration 1397:Bibliothèque Nationale de France 568:and Xing Bing in the year 1005: 270:Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing 3522:Sickman, L.; Soper, A. (1971). 3515: 3490: 3466: 3454: 3435: 3404: 3375: 3347: 3332: 3305: 3280: 3259: 3244: 3210: 3198: 3186: 3080: 3031: 2990: 2976: 2963: 2950: 2937: 2917: 2905: 2893: 2879: 2793: 2781: 2769: 2709: 2667: 2641: 2538: 1633:were printed from blocks or by 1421:(Korea) to print the 50-volume 632: 411: 372:Muggujeonggwang Dadharanigyeong 318:is 14 feet long and contains a 3858:Video: Block-printed wallpaper 3800:International Dunhuang Project 3721:, Cambridge University Press, 3696:McMurtrie, Douglas C. (1962), 3555:Barrett, Timothy Hugh (2008), 3548: 3318:. Cambridge University Press. 2508: 2449:"Early Print Culture in Korea" 2404:– via Countrystudies.us. 2381: 1624: 1360:. During the reign of Emperor 1270:Five Hundred Years of Printing 279:–670 AD. A similar piece, the 1: 3746:Chinese History: A New Manual 3446:A History of Japan: 1334–1615 2208: 2065: 1840: 1825: 1079:. In the early 20th century, 934:class and 50% to 60% for the 702:(c. 1679–1701), by Wang Kai, 273: 203: 198:, the oldest printed text in 177: 172:, the oldest printed text in 147: 3796:Chinese book-binding methods 3744:Wilkinson, Endymion (2012), 3739:, Cambridge University Press 3705:Rivière, Jean Roger (1966). 3577:Bulliet, Richard W. (1987). 2545:Hsü, Immanuel C. Y. (1970). 2394:North Korea: A Country Study 1749:published in 1679 and 1701. 1665: 1085:that fused the tradition of 75:in antiquity as a method of 19:For Western art prints, see 7: 2473:"National Treasure No. 126" 1752: 1640: 1586: 1580: 1551: 1541: 1520: 870:Under the Wave off Kanagawa 860:Woodblock printing in Japan 791:Woodblock printing in Korea 501:Western woodcut press, 1872 371: 292:Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra 92:method of printing on cloth 29:Woodblock printing in Japan 10: 3936: 3781:of a European block-book, 3735:Twitchett, Denis (1998b), 3622:An ABC for Book Collectors 3382:Kazuo Mori (25 May 2017). 2825:UNESCO Memory of the World 2281:The Book: A Global History 1716:printed in three colours. 1464: 1264:in the late 19th century. 1193: 1162: 1156: 966:(books on urban culture), 857: 788: 704:Metropolitan Museum of Art 552:, by the year 1023 39,142 123: 119: 104:is the best-known type of 18: 3809:SOAS University of London 3476:, p.75, 2013, Routledge, 2104: 2094: 2086:Thermal-transfer printing 2084: 2074: 2059: 2049: 2039: 2029: 2019: 2009: 1999: 1989: 1979: 1969: 1959: 1949: 1939: 1929: 1919: 1909: 1899: 1889: 1879: 1869: 1859: 1849: 1834: 1819: 1809: 1799: 1789: 1732: 1678:Colour woodblock printing 1527: 1122: 690:Three-five colored prints 577:In 1076, the 39 year old 360: 330: 3805:Chinese woodblock prints 3384: 3355: 3041:British Museum Quarterly 2923:Junko Nishiyama. (2018) 2547:The Rise of Modern China 2339:Chinese Science Bulletin 1961:Photostat and rectigraph 1687:Mino province: Yoro-taki 1476:was brought to Japan by 1383: 1275:The Gutenberg Revolution 853: 327:(乾符四年曆書), dated to 877. 220: 3842:Block printing in India 3442:Sansom, George (1961). 2800:Hyun, Jeongwon (2013). 1760:Part of a series on the 1315:or backwards in time." 353:The Great Dharani Sutra 170:The Great Dharani Sutra 3639:Chia, Lucille (2011), 2927:. p18. Tokyo Bijutsu. 2876:National Diet Library. 2716:Kai-Wing Chow (2004). 2679:The Schøyen Collection 2520:The Schøyen Collection 1811:Intaglio (printmaking) 1702: 1645:Around the mid-1400s, 1556: 1462: 1414: 1400: 1366:Charles-Nicolas Cochin 1328: 1312: 1215: 1189:Impact of movable type 1154: 1007:Nansō Satomi Hakkenden 908: 882: 807: 734: 727:National Palace Museum 711: 661: 595: 575: 502: 459:, was printed in 983. 348: 217: 209: 187: 161: 53: 3787:, with hand-colouring 3620:Carter, John (2006). 3561:Yale University Press 3003:Wooden Printing block 2499:List of Tang Emperors 1931:Hot metal typesetting 1685: 1518: 1451: 1406: 1391: 1317: 1296: 1232:Southern Song dynasty 1224:Northern Song dynasty 1222:were invented in the 1201: 1145:and the serpent, the 1130: 1101:Asia and North Africa 1017:Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige 897:Twenty Views of Tōkyō 888: 867: 798: 717: 697: 640: 583: 570: 560:, and by 1127 73,877 500: 488:Emperor Yuan of Liang 338: 215: 193: 167: 133: 39: 3472:Robertson, Frances, 3461:History of printing. 3363:on 29 September 2022 3339:Kotobank Saga Books. 1951:Daisy wheel printing 1071:influenced European 960:(satirical novels), 844:Goryeo Daejanggyeong 839:Goryeo Daejanggyeong 821:Goryeo Daejanggyeong 455:, also known as the 416:From 932 to 955 the 375:) was discovered at 77:printing on textiles 3920:Textual scholarship 3900:History of printing 3771:11 May 2008 at the 3195:, pp. 580–581) 2790:, pp. 578–579) 2778:, pp. 577–578) 2435:. 13 September 2006 2351:1997ChSBu..42..976P 1991:Dot matrix printing 1766:History of printing 1565:emaki (handscrolls) 1535:: libretto for the 1220:wooden movable type 816:Hyeonjong of Goryeo 812:Seongjong of Goryeo 361:무구정광대다라니경/無垢淨光大陀羅尼經 325:Qianfu sinian lishu 314:. This copy of the 281:Saddharma pundarika 264:. It is called the 227:Book of Southern Qi 126:History of printing 63:is a technique for 3880:Chinese inventions 3715:Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin 3392:on 30 January 2023 2925:新版画作品集 ―なつかしい風景への旅 2887:第6回 和本の楽しみ方4 江戸の草紙 2706:, p. 910-911. 2685:on 4 November 2006 2526:on 4 November 2006 2495:. British Library. 2486: • 2470: • 2446: • 2426: • 2407: • 2359:10.1007/BF02882611 2076:Solid ink printing 1791:Woodblock printing 1703: 1557: 1486:Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1415: 1401: 1325:Endymion Wilkinson 1216: 1172:Allan H. Stevenson 1155: 909: 883: 808: 735: 712: 698:Illustration from 658:Endymion Wilkinson 503: 349: 290:, under which the 218: 210: 188: 162: 106:Japanese woodblock 57:Woodblock printing 54: 3836:Project Gutenberg 3680:978-1-56852-481-8 3570:978-0-300-12728-7 3559:, Great Britain: 3484:, 9780415574167, 3342:The Asahi Shimbun 2483:on 16 March 2008. 2149: 2148: 2114: 2113: 1981:Spirit duplicator 1891:Chromolithography 1743:of 1633, and the 1287:Macartney mission 1214:, published 1313. 978:(romance novel), 972:(comical books), 848:Classical Chinese 800:Tripitaka Koreana 556:, by 1068 47,588 474:(441–513) 20,000 394:Hyakumantō Darani 369: 258:Mahayana Buddhism 233:(before AD 220). 225:According to the 196:Hyakumantō Darani 112:, except for the 3927: 3838: 3749: 3740: 3731: 3710: 3701: 3692: 3662: 3644: 3635: 3616: 3614: 3612: 3583: 3573: 3542: 3541: 3529: 3519: 3513: 3512: 3510: 3508: 3494: 3488: 3470: 3464: 3458: 3452: 3451: 3449: 3439: 3433: 3432: 3430: 3428: 3419:. 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Woodcut
Wood engraving
Woodblock printing in Japan

Diamond Sutra
Tang dynasty
British Library
printing
images
China
printing on textiles
paper
relief printing
method of printing on cloth
Tang China
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock
woodcut
block books
History of printing

dharani
Sanskrit
Chinese
Tang dynasty

The Great Dharani Sutra
Korea

Hyakumantō Darani

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