Japanese printing history in foreign printing history

The origin of Japanese printing industry is closely related to the spread of Buddhism. According to historical records, the earliest printing in Japan spread from Korea to the East. Since then, eminent monks, envoys of the Tang Dynasty and overseas students frequently traveled between Japan and China, which promoted the creation and development of Japanese printing. According to records, in the first year of the Japanese treasure turtle (770), four kinds of classics, such as Dalagni Pure Light Sutra, all in Chinese characters, were immediately printed and stored in 6,543.8+0,000 pagodas (small wooden pagodas), which was called the Million Pagodas Dalagni Sutra in history. In the second year of Kuan (1088), Cheng Weizhi was engraved, and in the first year of Bao (1246 ~ 1247), The Analects of Confucius was reprinted, that is, Confucian books were engraved on 1 day. 1264, Japanese monks brought back an engraving of the Quotations of Dajue Zen Master from the Song Dynasty in China, and in the following year (1289), they recruited engravers Xu Ruzhou and Hong Ju from Ningbo, China to engrave Buddhist books in Japan. In the first year of Yuan Heng (132 1), The Quotations of Master Heigu in Hiragana was published, which was the beginning of Japanese publication. 1590, European missionaries printed the Latin "Japanese envoy to Rome" in western movable type in China, Guangdong and Macau, and then the European printing was introduced to Japan, which was called "Che Zhidan". 1597 The book "Encouraging Learning" was printed with wooden movable type, which was historically said to be from North Korea. 16 16 years, the collection of books was printed in Korean copper characters, and the insufficient characters were supplemented by the native Lin military attache. 1869, Japanese Ben Muchang learned Chinese character modeling from Jiang, an American missionary who presided over the publication of Presbyterian Church in China, and acquired seven kinds of China movable type fonts. Japan has conducted in-depth research and development on China movable type fonts, created a variety of fonts, and continuously exported them to foreign countries. Since then, Japan has continuously absorbed new printing technologies from the West to use and develop them, especially in Chinese character typesetting, and created casting machines and photo typesetting systems.