Morgan Pitelka | Reiko Tanimura | Takashi Masuda 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 cultural trends of the day, the value of calligraphy, and the history of writing in Japan

Non-fictie

Engels | Japans | 203 pagina's | Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | 2021

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