Abstract
The purpose of this research is to confirm a history of Japanese typographical signs and to comprehend its total image since the Meiji period. In this paper the authors survey the texts in the editorial handbooks, literatures and encyclopedias, and to classify the usage of punctuational marks, symbols, arranging and tabulating them in chronological order. These procedures may show that the influence of the Western punctuations and their usage appear variously changed the Japanese way of using them in the printing books.
