'"Kornicki has given us a handsome and beautifully organized handbook that is sure to inform and stimulate research for many years to come."' J. Marshall Unger, "The Journal of Asian Studies". '"Kornicki's work is a landmark in Western language historiography on books in Eastern Asia. It ranks in importance with T.S. Carter's" The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward, "which startled the world of book-lovers some seventy years ago."' William R. Braisted, "Library & Culture", 1999. '" Kornicki's scholarship is exemplary and his contribution enormous, even signalling a new era in the study of Japanese culture". The Book in Japan "adds a new and more substantial basement to the already half-built edifice of Japanese cultural study."' Charles Shiro Inouye, "Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies", 2000.