Images of Japanese women
Subtitle: a Westerner's view
By: by Bettina L. Knapp.
Publisher: Whitston Pub. Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Troy, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Women -- Japan -- History.; Japanese literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Japan.; Japan -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Murasaki Shikibu's The tale of Genji : search for the mother; title: The Heian art diary : hidden behind the screens; title: Women's mysteries : poetry and Noh in feudal Japan; title: The arts and "The floating world" in the Edo period : 1603-1867; title: Ladies make waves in the Meiji period : 1868-1912; title: Modernism : the circle completed.