The Japanese Letter-Writing Era

The Japanese Letter-Writing Era was a key point in the later parts of Tokugawa Japan.

Japan started to change from this point of time, and fewer people were becoming illiterate.

This service first opened in the Kantō area in 1729 and grew more as time neared the end of the 18th century.

Kyushu was renowned in Japan for being a great place of Chinese and Western studies.

Yoshida Shoin was put to execution on October 27, 1859, so he wrote farewell letters to family and friends of his.