The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan by Sugawara Sugawara No Takasue No Musume

The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Translations from the Asian Classics

Sugawara Sugawara No Takasue No Musume with Sonja Arntzen (Translator), Moriyuki Itō (Translator)

nonfiction biography classics history literary slow-paced

239 pages

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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 fa...
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