Translating japanese into japanese: Bibliographic translation from woodblock to moveable type

This essay proposes a neologism with which to consider a type or an element of translation that has hitherto been neglected: bibliographic translation. Focusing on the example of an 1890 typeset edition of a 1673 woodblock edition of the eleventh-century Japanese classic The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), it considers both how those responsible for creating the 1890 edition attempted to translate the form of the premodern Japanese-style source book into the form of a Western-style typeset book, and how the intralingual transcription of calligraphic writing into typeset writing might be considered a form of translation.