page_title: The Japanese Letter-Writing Era
section_title: Key Letter-Writers
hierarchical_section_title: The Japanese Letter-Writing Era / Key Letter-Writers
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Yoshida Shoin (吉田松陰, 1830 – 1859)
context_page_description: The Japanese Letter-Writing Era was a key point in the later parts of Tokugawa Japan. It included writing letters that described personal emotions. These were usually written in vivid detail.
context_section_description: Key letter-writers during this period include people such as Yoshida Shoin. He had a collection of 245 letters. Some were very long and this interest began when he was about 21 in 1850. He got this interest from when he travelled beyond the boundary of his feudal domain to Kyushu. Kyushu was renown 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.
  Yoshida Shoin's contributions to the letter-writing era were what brought the era to its peak.
caption: Yoshida Shoin was a key letter-writer during the letter-writing period in Japan
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