Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook by Michiko Aoki, Kyoko Nagamatsu, Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel, Joseph D. Parker, H. Richard Okada, Fumiko Y. Yamamato, James R. Morita, Felice Fischer, Chieko Mulhern, S. Yumiko Hulvey, Edith Lorraine Sarra, Rebecca L. Copeland, Sanroku Yoshida, Ann Sherif, Paul McGrath, Michiko N. Wilson, Nobuto Tsukui, Livia Monnet, Keiko McDonald

536 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced

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Women have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), when Murasaki Shikibu wrote her prose masterpiece, The Tale of Genji. Even earlier, though documentation is scant, women actively participated i...

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