Peter Kornicki

Peter Francis Kornicki is Professor of East Asian Studies at Cambridge University. He was previously Professor of Japanese History and Bibliography.

Kornicki was educated at Oxford University. He taught at the University of Tasmania from 1975 to 1982, and was subsequently an associate professor at Kyoto University. In 1985 he came to Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Robinson College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and was President of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) in 1997-2000.

In addition to his main research interest in the history of the book in Japan, he is also interested in the lives and works of the British pioneer japanologists: Frederick Victor Dickins, William George Aston, Ernest Mason Satow and Basil Hall Chamberlain.

Honors

* Japan Foundation: Japan Foundation Special Prize, 1992. [ [http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/about/award/index.html Japan Foundation Special Prize, 1992.] ]

Works

*"The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century", Leiden: Brill, 1998. Paperback, University of Hawaii Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0824823375

*"Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections", with N. Hayashi (Cambridge University Press), pp. xx + 520, 1991 ISBN 978-0521364966

References

External links

* [http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/departments/deas/japanese/staff/kornicki.html Webpage at the Department of East Asian Studies]
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