The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Barbara Ruch, Ivan Morris

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

Barbara Ruch, Ivan Morris

337 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genj...

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