As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Subtitle: recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan
By: translated with an introduction by Ivan Morris.
Contributors: Morris, Ivan I.
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, -- b. 1008 -- Biography.; Women authors, Japanese -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Biography.
Genres: Autobiography
Work titles: Sarashina nikki.
First sentence: I was brought up in a part of the country so remote that it lies beyond the end of the Great East Road.
Description: Born in A.D. 1008 at the height of the Heian Period, the Lady Sarashina (as she is known) left behind her a diary that is remarkable for its wistfulness and sensitivity. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing dreams and veiled longings that are both timeless and poignant.
Notes: Translation of: Sarashina nikki (romanized form)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cover shows a detail of the Shotoku Taishi E-den by Munezane (Heian period), in the National Museum, Tokyo.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations and Maps
pagenum: ix; title: Sections and Chronology
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Translation: As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams
pagenum: 31; title: Notes
pagenum: 111; title: Index to Notes
pagenum: 149