The gossamer years
Subtitle: the diary of a noblewoman of Heian, Japan.
By: Translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Contributors: Seidensticker, Edward, 1921- tr.
Series: UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series
Publisher: Rutland, Vt.; C.E. Tuttle Co.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Japan -- Court and courtiers.
Description: "This frank autobiographical diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose."--Cover.
Notes: Translated form the Iwanami ed. of the Kagerō nikki published in 1957.