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Category: Non-fiction  In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan (Translations from the Asian Classics) free ebook download

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Author(s): Ogimachi Machiko Date: 2021 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0231199511   Pages: 368 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 9/11/2023 9:10:40 AM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman gimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasus retirement, she recalled it allfrom the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3200991 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/BE52CB70A0E0...   0.00 alex21s Tags: Asian Classics Japan Memoir Pine Shelter Tokugawa Translations Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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