Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese As Revealed Through 1, 000 Years of Diaries - Hardcover

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Descriptions rather than texts or excerpts of dairies of Japanese for the past 1,000 years, including those of Lady Murasaki, author of The Tale of Genji and Basho, the master of Haiku. The glossary is without pronunciation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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At once an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the greater struggles and advances of Japanese culture, this book illuminates the hidden and largely unknown worlds of imperial courts, Buddhist monasteries, country inns, and merchants' houses.
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Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature", presents here a collection of premodern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years. Ranging from objective to confessional, selections such as "The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu" and "Diaries of Seventeenth-Century Courtiers" offer unparalleled glimpses into the lives of diverse writers from the Kamakura dynastic period to the Tokugawa period. Illuminating the hidden and largely unknown worlds of imperial courts, Buddhist monasteries, country inns, and merchants' houses, Travelers of a Hundred Ages is an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the struggles and advances of Japanese culture.

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  • PublisherHenry Holt & Co
  • Publication date1989
  • ISBN 10 0805007512
  • ISBN 13 9780805007510
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages468
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