Charing Cross Road

Japanese: Charing Cross Road(英語表記)CharingCrossRoad
Charing Cross Road

Other world-famous second-hand bookshops include Maggs and Kraus. Charing Cross Road in London, once the most popular second-hand bookshop district in Europe, was established by chance around 1900 and reached its peak of prosperity in the 1930s, but there is no trace of its past today. Meanwhile, in Japan, the world's oldest printed work with a known publication date, the Hyakumanto Dharani, was created in 770 (Hōki 1), and temples and shrines across the country published temple editions during the Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi periods, but it was during the Edo period that many bookstores that also operated as publishing businesses began to appear.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Charing Cross Road" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのほかマグズMaggs,クラウスKraus等が世界に知られた古本屋である。かつてはヨーロッパで最もポピュラーな古本屋街とされたロンドンのチャリング・クロス・ロードCharing Cross Roadは1900年ころ偶発的に成立し,1930年代に繁栄の極に達したが,現在では往時をしのぶよすがもない。 一方,日本においては,刊年の判明している印刷物としては世界最古の〈百万塔陀羅尼〉が770年(宝亀1)に作られ,平安・鎌倉・室町期には各地の寺社で寺社版(寺院版)の出版が行われたが,出版を営業とする本屋が多く現れるのは江戸期である。…

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