Musume Sugawara No Takasue

The Sarashina nikki

Herausgeber: De Lange, William

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Produktbeschreibung

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of beauty only checked by her keen sense of its transitory nature. Inspired by Murasaki Shikibu's then already famous Genji monogatari, the author seeks to achieve the same romantic fulfillment of that work's hero and commits her thoughts, emotions, and experiences to a memoir she named the Sarashina nikki in an allusion to a much-loved poem from the Kokin wakash¿. Perhaps the most evocative part of the Sarashina nikki is her three-month journey to the capital following her father's recall from his governorship of Kazusa, which offers rare descriptions of the more remote regions of Heian Japan-its blinding white beaches, its majestic mountains, its dark forests. Above all, the Sarashina nikki is a poignant record of a woman's deep romantic yearning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TOYO Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 187g
• ISBN-13: 9789492722294
• ISBN-10: 9492722291
• Artikelnr.: 60792773

Autorenporträt

Kochi Doi studied English literature and classic Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. Following his graduation, he did research in France, England, and Italy. On his return to Japan he taught at a number of universities, introducing English romanticism. also pursued his study of classical Japanese literature, the comparative study of mythology, as well as Eastern and Western literature. In 1949, he became a member of the Japan Academy.