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The Gossamer Years The Diary Of A Noblewoman Of Heian Japan

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Gossamer Years

Gossamer Years
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Publsiher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 10: 9781462903573
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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 as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period..


The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
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Publsiher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1989-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 10: 0804811237
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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 as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period..


The Kagero Diary

The Kagero Diary
Author:
Publsiher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Total Pages: 433
Release: 1997-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN 10: 9780939512812
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Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author’s relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author’s intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna’s Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text..


The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki)

The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki)
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Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1990
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:475215707
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The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
Author: Kageró Nikki
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1964
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:1063107595
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The Gossamer Years (Kagero Nikki)

The Gossamer Years (Kagero Nikki)
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Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1987
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:475307580
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The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
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Total Pages:
Release: 1975
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:695234434
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The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
Author: Mother of Michitsuna
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1964
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:30271740
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The gossamer years: the diary of noblewoman of heian Japan, tr

The gossamer years: the diary of noblewoman of heian Japan, tr
Author: Fujiwara Michitsuna no haha
Publsiher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1964
Genre: Japan
ISBN 10: OCLC:844900953
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The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
Author:
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1964
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:460081595
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The Gossamer Year

The Gossamer Year
Author: Michitsuna no Haha
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1964
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:869089866
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The Kagero Diary

The Kagero Diary
Author: Sonja Arntzen
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN 10: OCLC:1286316011
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Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna's Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954-74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman's experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author's relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author's intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna's Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text..


Japanese Women Writers

Japanese Women Writers
Author: Chieko Irie Mulhern
Publsiher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN 10: 0313254869
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Women have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), during which time Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji. This reference is a guide to literature by Japanese women writers from centuries ago to the present day. The book includes biographical and critical profiles for 58 Japanese women writers, with entries arranged alphabetically. Each entry sketches the life of the writer and discusses her career..


The Hidden Sun

The Hidden Sun
Author: Dorothy Robins-mowry
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN 10: 9781000302158
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Ever since Japan and the West discovered one another, Western observers have extolled the surface virtues of Japanese women but attended very little to what they are really like. In this new, balanced view of the role of Japanese women in their country's swiftly changing society, Dr. Robins-Mowry destroys the Western stereotype of the shy, perhaps.


The Sarashina Diary

The Sarashina Diary
Author: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Publsiher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN 10: 9780231546829
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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..


The Gossamer Years

The Gossamer Years
Author: Michitsuna no Haha
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1997
Genre: Authors, Japanese
ISBN 10: OCLC:842991086
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The Japanese

The Japanese
Author: Christopher Harding
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 10: 9780141992297
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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Sunday Times From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures..


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