Type Technology - Katsujitekunologi

Japanese: 活字テクノロジー - かつじてくのろじー
Type Technology - Katsujitekunologi

… Shoyo’s argument was in line with the technology of book production, which shifted from woodblock printing to movable type. The uniform system of movable type technology separated illustrations from the text, increasing readability but diluting the sound image. The words of a novel printed with movable type, by stripping away the materiality of the words, conversely increases the purity of the ideas and representations that are meant. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "typography technology" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… こうした逍遥の主張は,木版から活版へという書物生産のテクノロジーと見合っていた。活字テクノロジーの画一的なシステムは,挿絵と本文を分離し,可読性が増強されるかわりに音声イメージが希薄になる。活字で印刷された小説の言葉は,言葉の物質性を切りおとしていくことで,逆に意味されるものとしての観念や表象の純度を高めていく。…

※「活字テクノロジー」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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