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Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Correspondence of Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2021Description: 203 pages; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781557291950
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS870.P57
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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Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks DS870.P57 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 032960
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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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