Treatise on Epistolary Style Book by Jeroen Lamers
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The Great Grammar of the Japanese Language (Arte da lingoa de Japam) was written by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Joao Rodriguez (1561-1633) and printed by the Jesuit mission press in Nagasaki between 1604 and 1608. The grammar is a veritable treasure house of information about the Japanese language in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and particularly the language of polite society.

Japanese epistolary style, or sorobun, is one of the topics dealt with by Rodriguez. Rodriguez explains in his Treatise on Epistolary Style what kind of letters there are and their names, the set phrases that are used, how a letter is divided into its component parts, how to interpret the physical layout of a letter, and how the level of politeness can be determined. Rodriguez deals extensively with the courtesies for the Buddhist clergy, and he proposes an adaptation of these forms so that they can be used for and by Jesuit missionaries in Japan. Finally, Rodriguez provides a large number of sample letters.

The "Treatise on Epistolary Style" has a twofold utility for modern readers. First, it is an excellent instrument for dissecting Japanese letters from the early-modern era into their component parts. Second, it can help to make apparent the valuable historical and social clues that are often hidden in what appear to be trivial epistolary details. Once one understands the principles of the Japanese epistolary style, with its subtle social nuances and minute gradations of courtesies, much more information can be obtained from early-modern documents than their factual contents alone.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781929280117
  • Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
  • Publisher Imprint: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
  • Height: 155 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Series Title: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies
  • Sub Title: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters Volume 39
  • Width: 231 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1929280114
  • Publisher Date: 06 Dec 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr


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