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Title: THE DIARY OF LADY MURASAKI
By: Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring, Richard Bowring
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 014043576X
ISBN 13: 9780140435764
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 7 March, 1996
Pages: 144
Translated from: Japanese
Description: This is the diary of Lady Murasaki, the Japanese prose writer. It describes the Heian court at its apogee and offers an intimate picture of the author's life as tutor and companion to the timid Empress Shoshi. It reveals the underside of imperial splendour from a female point of view.
Synopsis: The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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