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Told Round a Brushwood Fire / Joyce Ackroyd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 81Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1980Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691616292
  • 9781400853045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952/.025/0924
LOC classification:
  • DS872.A7 A313 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Translation -- Introduction -- Told Round a Brushwood Fire -- Preface -- Book 1 -- Book II -- Book III -- Notes -- Biographical Notes -- Appendix 1. Glossary of Titles, Offices, and Names -- Appendix 2. The Sexagenary System and Era Names -- Appendix 3. Measures -- Appendix 4. Pedigrees -- Appendix 5. Selected Chronology -- Maps -- Index
Summary: The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary source material for the first half of the Tokugawa period, it constitutes a unique historical supplement to the official records. Presented here is a scholarly English translation of and commentary on this important work.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Translation -- Introduction -- Told Round a Brushwood Fire -- Preface -- Book 1 -- Book II -- Book III -- Notes -- Biographical Notes -- Appendix 1. Glossary of Titles, Offices, and Names -- Appendix 2. The Sexagenary System and Era Names -- Appendix 3. Measures -- Appendix 4. Pedigrees -- Appendix 5. Selected Chronology -- Maps -- Index

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The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary source material for the first half of the Tokugawa period, it constitutes a unique historical supplement to the official records. Presented here is a scholarly English translation of and commentary on this important work.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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