The Kagerō diary : a woman's autobiographical text from tenth-century Japan / translated with an introduction and notes by Sonja Arntzen.

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 a...

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Main Author: Michitsuna no Haha, approximately 935-995
Other Authors: Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Series:Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 19.
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Uniform Title:Kagerō nikki.