Hortatory

II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon.

This letter consists of two strands: an expositional or doctrinal strand, and a hortatory or strongly urging also translated "exhorting" strand which punctuates the exposition parenthetically at key points as warnings to the readers.

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right).