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Morgan Pitelka Reading medieval ruins
urban life and destruction in sixteenth-century Japan
"The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specific excavated objects and decades of archaeological evidence to study daily life in Ichijōdani, Reading Medieval Ruins in Sixteenth-Century Japan illuminates the city's layout, the possessions and houses of its residents, its politics and...
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Engels | 241 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2022
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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
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Engels | Japans | 203 pagina's | Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | 2021
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Morgan Pitelka