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The Diary of Lady Murasaki

Shikibu, MurasakiBowring, Richard(Notes by)Bowring, Richard(Introduction by)Bowring, Richard(Translated by)
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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.

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Penguin Classics
014043576X / 9780140435764
Paperback / softback
07/03/1996
United Kingdom
English
160p.
20 cm
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