Sarashina Diary A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Name: Sarashina Diary A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
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ISBN: 9780231167185

ISBN-10: 0231167180

ISBN-13: 9780231167185

Edition: 2018

Authors: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen, Moriyuki ItÅ

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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married late and identified more as a writer than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the writer as reader and a tribute to the power of reading to shape one's expectations and aspirations. As a person and an author, this writer…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/22/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100

Moriyuki Itï¿½ holds a PhD from Tï¿½hoku University, (1995). He taught from 1984 to 2005 at Hirosaki University. He is currently professor of Japanese Literature at Gakushï¿½in Women's College in Tokyo. He has published many articles on the Sarashina Diary over a period of thirty years. His Sarashina nikki Kenkyï¿½, (Research on the Sarashina Diary) published in 1995 is recognized as a definitive work on the subject.