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The Sarashina Diary
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 autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader’s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō’s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author’s deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators’ commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work.
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Bogen skrevet af Lady Sarashina
The Sarashina Diary
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl began a diary; from it, she skillfully created an autobiography later in life. This reader's edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō's acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use, offering insight into the author's world and the diary's textual history.
The Sarashina Diary
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married late and identified more as a writer than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the writer as reader and a tribute to the power.
The Sarashina Diary: Super Large Print Edition of the Classic Memoir of an 11th Century Woman in Japan Specially Designed for Low Vision Re
== Special Edition for Low Vision Readers == The woman who wrote this was born over a 1000 years ago. Her personal name is lost, but she lives on in these stories of her life and travels. About Super Large Print All our books are published with a font designed for maximum readability at twice the size of traditional Large Print books. You can see a sample of Super Large Print at superlargeprint.com KEEP ON READING!
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"Explore the gentle unfurling of spring and reflect on how nature celebrates birth and renewal in this collection of reflections by our greatest writers" --back cover.
The Sarashina Nikki
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of beauty only checked by her keen sense of its transitory nature. Inspired by Murasaki Shikibu's then already famous Genji monogatari, the author seeks to achieve the same romantic fulfillment of that work's hero and commits her thoughts, emotions, and experiences to a memoir she named the Sarashina nikki in an allusion to a much-loved poem from the Kokin wakashū. Perhaps the most evocative part of the Sarashina nikki is her three-month journey to the capital following her father's recall from his governorship of Kazusa, which offers rare descriptions of the more remote regions of Heian Japan-its blinding white beaches, its majestic mountains, its dark forests. Above all, the Sarashina nikki is a poignant record of a woman's deep romantic yearning.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan is a collection of diaries by Murasaki Shikibu, who was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.
The Lives of Three Women in 11th Century Japan (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
This collection of diaries chronicles the lives of three women at court during the Heian era. The women detail their marriages, affairs, and travels across the country in three distinct styles. Lady Sarashina's work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages, making it one of the first in the genre of travel writing. Murasaki Shikibu's diary consists of a number of vignettes portraying important events, and Izumi Shikibu used her strength as a poet to detail her life in a collection of poetry. The Heian period is considered the peak of the Japanese imperial court and noted for its art, particularly poetry and literature. Nobles and ladies-in-waiting were expected to be well versed in the art of writing poetry as a mark of their status. Every occasion could call for the writing of a verse, from the birth of a child to the coronation of an emperor, or even a pretty scene of nature. The Lives of Three Women in 11th Century Japan is a collection of historical records detailing the role poetry and literature played in the Heian imperial court. This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.
Telling Women's Lives
Long (sociology, Syracuse U.) seeks other methods for women's autobiography than the traditional Great Man and masculine discourse. She says it must reflect female subjectivity and provide space for the distinctive nature of women's experience. The one she finds is built on the past two decades of feminist methodology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
