The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan by Michitsuna no Haha, Edward G. Seidensticker

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

Michitsuna no Haha, Edward G. Seidensticker

208 pages first pub 974 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced

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Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship...

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