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Told Round a Brushwood Fire
By (Author) Joyce Ackroyd
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th April 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Asian history
952.025
Hardback
360
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
680g
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 o