Have you ever admired the privilege of your elementary school teacher, who produced and distributed handouts using a mimeograph and a rotary printer? With the release of Riso Kagaku Corporation’s “Print Gocco,” even elementary school students were able to print freely and inexpensively. If you remember the excitement of that moment, you can probably understand the sense of wonder felt by early modern intellectuals when they first encountered the printing techniques of movable wooden type. My book, Expanded Edition: The Taiheiki and the Age of Movable Wooden Type (Shintensha Inc., 2018), traces how a man named Ikawa Ryoan made use of this technology to publish the Taiheiki.