The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume ; translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Itō Moriyuki.

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text...

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