The culture of copying in Japan : critical and historical perspectives / edited by Rupert Cox.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Body to body transmission : the copying tradition of Kagura performance / Irit Averbuch -- A spectrum of copies : ritual puppetry in Japan / Jane Marie Law -- Copying in Japanese magazines : unashamed copiers / Keiko Tanaka -- The originality of the "copy" : mimesis and subversion in Hanegawa Toei's Chosenjin Ukie -- Copy to convert : Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan / Alexandra Curvelo -- Back to the fundamentals : "reproducing" Riky and Chjir in Japanese tea culture / Morgan Pitelka -- An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian and early Kamakura Japan / Rein Raud -- Chinese calligraphic models in Heian Japan : copying practices and stylistic transmission / John Carpenter -- Beyond mimesis : Japanese architectural models at the Vienna Exhibition and 1910 Japan British Exhibition / William Coaldrake -- Copying Kyoto : the legitimacy of imitation in Kyoto's townscape debates / Christoph Brumann -- Copying cars : forgotten licensing agreements / Chris Madeley -- "Hungry visions" : the material life of Japanese food samples / Rupert Cox.