The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan Volume 19 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sonja Arntzen (Translator)Series:Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies #19Publish date:1997-08-01Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780939512812ISBN-10:939512815UPC:9780939512812Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, HistoricalSize:9.02 x 6.10 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCM6JBXSJZ
The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan Volume 19
Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagerō Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna's Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954-74), and...
Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies #19
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780939512812ISBN-10:939512815UPC:9780939512812Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, HistoricalSize:9.02 x 6.10 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCM6JBXSJZ
Sonja Arntzen received her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from the University of British columbia and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. In addition to numerous articles, she has published two books on the life and poetry of the Muromachi-period Zen monk, Ikkyu Sojun: The Crazy Cloud Anthology of Ikkyu Sojun (1986), and Ikkyu Sojun: A Zen Monk and His Poetry (1973)....
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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