A history of Japanese publishing in the interwar period, addressing the material production of literary texts and the creation of literary value.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Publishing and the Creation of an Alternative Economy of Value 1
1. Modernity as Rupture: The Concentration of Print Capital 17
2. The Stability of the Center: Tokyo Publishing and the Great Kanto Earthquake 51
3. The Static Canon: Kaizosha's Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature 91
4. Defining and Defending Literary Value: Debates, 1919-1935 139
5. The Dynamic Canon: The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature 181
Epilogue 223
Appendix 237
Notes 243
Works Cited 297
Index 311