Rewriting medieval Japanese women
Subtitle: politics, personality, and literary production in the life of Nun Abutsu
By: Christina Laffin
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780824835651
Subjects: Japanese Women authors; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nun Abutsu and women's writing in medieval Japan; title: A woman's guide to career success : Nun Abutsu and court life in The nursemaid's letter; title: Lover and nun : embodying the heroine in Fitful slumbers; title: Women and the way : Nun Abutsu as poet and Genji scholar; title: Politics and poetry : Diary of the sixteenth night moon as a literary appeal.