TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitelka, Morgan
AU  -  Tanimura, Reiko
AU  - Masuda, Takashi,
TI  - Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:  Correspondence of Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats
SN  - 9781557291950
AV  - DS870.P57 
PY  - 2021///
CY  -  Berkeley
PB  - Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
KW  -  Japanese letters
KW  - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
KW  - Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603
KW  - Translations into English
N2  - 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
ER  -