correspondence of warlords, tea masters, Zen priests, and aristocrats Pitelka, Morgan 1972- creator author. Tanimura, Reiko author. Masuda, Takashi author. text bibliography cau Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2021 monographic eng jpn jpn

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viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm "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"-- Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura, and Takashi Masuda. Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203). AAL Text in the original Japanese with English translations. a-ja--- Japanese letters Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603 Japanese letters Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 Japanese letters Translations into English Japan History Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603 Sources Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 Sources DS870 .P57 2021 952.024 9781557291950 9781557291967 2021033076 Ayesha Abed Library DLC 260608 20260721162335.0 45876 eng