As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England · Penguin Books · 1975

Biography ·Court and courtiers ·Diaries ·History ·Japanese Authors ·Japanese Women authors ·Women ·Femmes âecrivains ·Femmes âecrivains japonaises ·Biographies ·Littâerature japonaise ·Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author) ·Japan, fiction ·Women, japan ·Eleventh century

Born in A.D. 1008 at the height of the Heian Period, the Lady Sarashina (as she is known) left behind her a diary that is remarkable for its wistfulness and sensitivity. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing dreams and veiled longings that are both timeless and poignant.

Extent: 153 p.
ISBN: 9780140442823
LCCN: 75006124

1 copy · reference, in-library use

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