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 cultur...

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Main Authors:	Pitelka, Morgan (Author), Masuda, Takashi (Author), Tanimura, Reiko (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2021.
Subjects:	Japanese letters > Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603. Japanese letters > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. Japanese letters > Translations into English.
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