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The gossamer years the diary of a noblewoman of Heian, Japan

By Edward , Michitsuna no Haha;en;道綱母;Seidensticker

Book information

Publisher
Rutland, Tuttle Publishing;C.E. Tuttle Co., Vt
Year
1964
ISBN
9781462903573, 9780804811231, 1462903576
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2770555 bytes)
Series
UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series
Pages
(201 pages) illustrations, map\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- approximately 935-995;Japan -- Court and courtiAdel;Vrouwen;Courts and courtiers;Electronic books

Description

Introduction -- The Gossamer Years: Book One; Book Two; Book Three -- Notes -- Appendix: The Heian Setting: Illustrations.;"This frank autobiographical diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose."--Cover.

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