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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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • BookDepository

    The Diary of Lady Murasaki : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140435764 : 014043576X : 01 Oct 1996 : 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.

  • Penguin

    In The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki (c. 973c. 1020) created one of the supreme classics of Japanese literature; her Diary offers an intimate and equally compelling picture of her life as tutor and companion to the Empress Shoshi.

  • Pickabook

    Murasaki Shikibu, Richard John Bowring, Richard John Bowring (Trans)

  • 014043576X
  • 9780140435764
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • 27 January 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 144
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