TY  - GEN
T1  - The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan
T2  - Translations from the Asian classics.
A1  - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-
A2  - Arntzen, Sonja, 1945-
A2  - Itō, Moriyuki, 1954-
LA  - English
LA  - Japanese
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn881610975
AB  - 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 ...
OP  - 239
CN  - PL789.S8 Z4713 2014eb
SN  - 9780231537452
SN  - 023153745X
SN  - 9780231167185
SN  - 0231167180
KW  - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, : 1008- : Diaries.
KW  - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, : 1008-
KW  - Authors, Japanese : Heian period, 794-1185 : Diaries.
KW  - Écrivains japonais : 794-1185 (Époque de Heian) : Journaux intimes.
KW  - ART : Techniques : Drawing.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Asian : Japanese.
KW  - Authors, Japanese : Heian period
KW  - 794 - 1185
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Diaries
ER  -