The gossamer years : the diary of a noblewoman of Heian Japan
2001
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This diary of a Japanese noblewoman portrays difficult elements of the Japanese social hierarchy, and her discontent as a subsidiary wife.
Main title:
The gossamer years : the diary of a noblewoman of Heian Japan / translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Imprint:
Boston, Mass. : Charles E. Tuttle ; Enfield : Airlift [distributor], 2001.
Collation:
201 p. : facsims., geneal. tables ; 21 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: 1964.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780804811231 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.872095920
Local class:
BIO: MICH
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Subject:
BRN:
1033596