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

The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition)

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

168 pages

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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobi...
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