The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan /

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Author / Creator:Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- author.
Uniform title:Sarashina nikki. English
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Translations from the Asian classics
Translations from the Asian classics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11231975
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Other authors / contributors:Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- writer of introduction, translator.
Itō, Moriyuki, 1954- writer of introduction, translator.
ISBN:9780231537452
023153745X
9780231167185
0231167180
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Japanese.
Print version record.
Summary: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 ...
Other form:Print version: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- Sarashina nikki. English. Sarashina diary. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231167185
Standard no.:10.7312/suga16718