Letters from Japan's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : correspondence of warlords, tea masters, Zen priests, and aristocrats /
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 cultura...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
| Language Notes: | Text in the original Japanese with English translations. |
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Berkeley :
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,
[2021].
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| Series: | Japan research monograph ;
20. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-203). |
| ISBN: | 9781557291950 1557291950 |