Meade, Ruselle (Author)
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Volume: 26
Issue: 2
Pages: 77-92
During the late 1860s and early 1870s, many science books were translated into vernacular Japanese from Chinese and European languages. These works rendered science accessible to non-scholarly audiences, thereby opening up scientific knowledge for appropriation in various ways. This paper focuses on one work that drew together material from such translations to promote a particular message. The book in question, Hatsumei Kiji (Accounts of Invention), was created by an Osaka-based merchant who adapted, supplemented and vernacularized scholarly translations to produce a work which aimed to persuade tradesmen that science promised a means of securing their future in the unsettled social and economic landscape of the early Meiji period. This paper examines the methods used by the book's author to hone his message and to render it accessible for his desired audience.
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