Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society
Suzuki Bokushi, a Rural Elite Commoner
Biographical note
Takeshi Moriyama, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at Murdoch University, Australia. His publications include 'Communicating Provincials: The Correspondence Network of Suzuki Bokushi' (Japanese Studies, 29:1, 2009), and 'Unhappiness in Retirement: "Isho" of Suzuki Bokushi' (Early Mondern Japan, 18, 2010).
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