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The diary of Lady Murasaki / translated and introduced by Richard Bowring.
Van Pelt Library PL788.4.Z5 A3513 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murasaki Shikibu, 978?-
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Murasaki Shikibu nikki. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Murasaki Shikibu, 978?---Diaries.
- Murasaki Shikibu.
- Murasaki Shikibu, 978?-.
- Women authors, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185--Diaries.
- Women authors, Japanese.
- Diaries.
- Women authors, Japanese--Heian period.
- Japan--Social life and customs--795-1185.
- Local Subjects:
- Japan--Social life and customs--795-1185.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- li, 91 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York N.Y. : Penguin, 1996.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- This translation of the diary of Japan's greatest prose writer, author of the Tale of Genji, is a highly personalised mixture of self-analysis and reportage, affording an atmospheric picture of the Heian Court at its apogee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92).
- Translated from the Japanese.
- ISBN:
- 014043576X
- 9780140435764
- OCLC:
- 34676077
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