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)

168 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history memoir reflective slow-paced

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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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