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• Buddhist missionaries around AD 768-770 introduced hand-printing technology in Japan. They have adopted this from China.

• The Buddhist Diamond Sutra was the oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, containing six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.

• In medieval Japan, poets and prose Writers regularly published their work.

• In the late eighteenth century, writers tried to depict an elegant urban culture

• Libraries and bookstores were packed with hand-printed material of various types – books on women, musical instruments, calculations, tea ceremony, flower arrangements, etc.