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Letters from Japan's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : correspondence of warlords, tea masters, Zen priests, and aristocrats / Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura and Takashi Masuda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitelka, Morgan, 1972- author.
- Tanimura, Reiko, author.
- Masuda, Takashi, author.
- Series:
- Japan research monograph ; 20.
- Japan research monograph ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--History--Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603--Sources.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Sources.
- Japanese letters--Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603.
- Japanese letters.
- Japanese letters--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
- Japanese letters--Translations into English.
- Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 203 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Text in the original Japanese with English translations.
- Summary:
- "This book collects twenty-three original, handwritten Japanese letters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and provides transcriptions, translations, and essay commentaries for each. In addition, introductory essays contextualize such letter writing in the politics of the period, the cultural trends of the day, the value of calligraphy, and the history of writing in Japan"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pitelka, Morgan. Letters from Japan's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- ISBN:
- 9781557291950
- 1557291950
- OCLC:
- 1263246262
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