Shikibu Murasaki:
The Diary Of Lady Murasaki
Translator: Richard JohnBowring
Penguin Books Ltd (United Kingdom), 1996
Paperback, 144 pages
Size: 198x130 mm
ISBN: 9780140435764
ISBN-10: 014043576X
List price: £8.99
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The Diary Of Lady Murasaki
This is the diary of Lady Murasaki, the Japanese prose writer. It describes the Heian court at its apogee and offers an intimate picture of the author's life as tutor and companion to the timid Empress Shoshi. It reveals the underside of imperial splendour from a female point of view.

