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Tannishō: passages deploring deviations of faith; The Rennyo Shōnin ofumi: the letters of Rennyo
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ISBN: 1886439036 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley Numata center for Buddhist translation and research

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Tannishō sets out to refute deviations from the True Pure Land school teachings. ""Rennyo Shōnin Ofumi"" is a collection of eighty pastoral letters written to True Pure Land school followers. This work presents two titles in one volume.


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The first European description of Japan, 1585 : a critical English-language edition of striking contrasts in the customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J.
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ISBN: 9781138643321 9780415727570 9781315852140 9781317917793 9781317917809 Year: 2014 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

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In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War.

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
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ISBN: 1281919764 9786613792730 0231503865 9780231503860 9780231130561 0231130562 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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"Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a lasting heritage for the entire Japanese people." "Today Yoshimasa is remembered primarily as the builder of the Temple of the Silver Pavilion and as the ruler at the time of the Onin War (1467-1477), after which the authority of the shogun all but disappeared. Unable to control the daimyos - provincial military governors - he abandoned politics and devoted himself to the quest for beauty. It was then, after Yoshimasa resigned as shogun and made his home in the mountain retreat now known as the Silver Pavilion, that his aesthetic taste came to define that of the Japanese: the no theater flourished, Japanese gardens were developed, and the tea ceremony had its origins in a small room at the Silver Pavilion. Flower arrangement, ink painting, and shoin-zukua-i architecture began or became of major importance under Yoshimasa. Poets introduced their often barely literate warlord-hosts to the literary masterpieces of the past and taught them how to compose poetry. Even the most barbarous warlord came to want the trappings of culture that would enable him to feel like a civilized man." "Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion gives this long-neglected but critical period in Japanese history the thorough treatment it deserves."--Jacket.


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Warlords, artists & commoners : Japan in the sixteenth century.
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ISBN: 0824806921 Year: 1981 Publisher: Honolulu University press of Hawaii


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A sense of place : the political landscape in late medieval Japan
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ISBN: 9780674726734 9781684175369 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Asia Center

Conversations with Shotetsu
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ISBN: 0939512432 0472901575 Year: 1992 Publisher: Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan,

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The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shotetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction.

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