Told Round a Brushwood Fire / / Joyce Ackroyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ackroyd, Joyce,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 81
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400853045; 9783110649680; 9783110413441; 9783110413663; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400853045
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joyce Ackroyd.

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.