The Sarashina Diary : : A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan / / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Translations from the Asian Classics
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; ‹B›17 illus., 3 maps‹/B› |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: A Collaborative Project
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Translation and Technical Matters
- Introduction and Study
- 1. Text and Author
- 2. The Relationship of Theme and Structure
- 3. Dreams and Religious Consciousness
- 4. A Child's Viewpoint and Layers of Narration
- 5. Text and Intertext: The Sarashina Diary and the Tale of Genji
- 6. A Life Composed in Counterpoint
- Sarashina Diary
- Afterword
- Appendix 1. Family and Social Connections
- Appendix 2. Maps
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter