Books of the era and meaning - antique Japanese woodblock book, Japanese language school reader, Meiji 1902

This is a Japanese school book on language and reading for ordinary elementary education. It is a Meiji-period school edition connected with the formation of reading skills and language standardization in Japanese primary education.

Such books are important not only as educational material, but as true objects of their time. They preserve the material structure of the old Japanese book: traditional binding, woodblock-based printing, the rhythm of vertical text, publishing discipline, and the visual world of school reading in early twentieth-century Japan. This is a real object in which the everyday history of education, the culture of the printed page, and the living memory of the period are joined together. It does not retell the era - it carries its direct physical presence.

Japanese language school reader.
Antique Japanese woodblock-printed school book.
Meiji period, 1902.
Ministry of Education approved edition.
Kabushiki Kaisha Fukyusha, Tokyo.
For ordinary elementary school use.

Condition

Antique condition. Natural age-related wear is present, including paper toning, signs of time to the cover and edges, and general handling wear consistent with an authentic old Japanese book. Please review the photos carefully.

Size

Size (approx.): 15 x 22 cm.

Shipping

Safe and tracked shipping from Latvia. Protective packaging.

For US buyers

This item enters the United States duty-free.