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*''Japanese'': 武鑑 ''(bukan)''
''Bukan'' (lit. "Military Mirrors") were guidebooks published and popularly available in the [[Edo period]] describing prominent samurai households.
Though scholars generally assume publishers to have obtained the necessary information from the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] itself, [[Peter Kornicki]] points out that in [[1844]], the shogunate asked two publishers what their sources were - a strong indication that their sources were not, in fact, the shogunate. The two publishers, [[Subaraya Mohei]] and [[Izumoji Bunjiro|Izumoji Bunjirô]], revealed that observing comings & goings at the gates to [[Edo castle]] played a large role in their collection of information. ''[[Daimyo|Daimyô]]'' households are, further, known to have occasionally paid publishers to be included in a more prominent place in these guides, i.e. earlier in the order of the listing of houses.
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==References==
*Peter Kornicki, "New Books for Old," ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 62:1 (2007), 99.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
''Bukan'' (lit. "Military Mirrors") were guidebooks published and popularly available in the [[Edo period]] describing prominent samurai households.
Though scholars generally assume publishers to have obtained the necessary information from the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] itself, [[Peter Kornicki]] points out that in [[1844]], the shogunate asked two publishers what their sources were - a strong indication that their sources were not, in fact, the shogunate. The two publishers, [[Subaraya Mohei]] and [[Izumoji Bunjiro|Izumoji Bunjirô]], revealed that observing comings & goings at the gates to [[Edo castle]] played a large role in their collection of information. ''[[Daimyo|Daimyô]]'' households are, further, known to have occasionally paid publishers to be included in a more prominent place in these guides, i.e. earlier in the order of the listing of houses.
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==References==
*Peter Kornicki, "New Books for Old," ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 62:1 (2007), 99.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]