The tale of Murasaki

Author(s)

• Crihfield, Liza

Bibliographic Information

The tale of Murasaki

Liza Dalby

Vintage, 2001, c2000

• : pbk

Note

"First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 2000"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress, aristocrats and concubines, warriors and servants, her own family. She records a remarkable place of political and sexual plotting, male power and female manipulation, as she writes the Tale of Genji, the masterpiece of Japanese literature.

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Details

• NCID: BA82906284
• ISBN:
  • 0099284642
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 416 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 813.6
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Murasaki Shikibu, b. 978?
  • LCSH : Women authors, Japanese -- Heian period, 794-1185
  • LCSH : Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185