Letters from Japan's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : correspondence of warlords, tea masters, Zen priests, and aristocrats / Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura, and Takashi Masuda.

By:

Pitelka, Morgan, 1972- [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Japanese Original language: Japanese Series: Japan research monograph ; 20Publication details: Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2021.Description: viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

9781557291950
9781557291967

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DDC classification:

952.024 23

LOC classification:

DS870 .P57 2021

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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library	Ayesha Abed Library	952.024 PIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010045876

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203).

"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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Text in the original Japanese with English translations.

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