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

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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.

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