| The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition) Contributor(s): Sugawara No Takasue No Musume, Sugawara (Author), Arntzen, Sonja (Translator), Itō, Moriyuki (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231186770 ISBN-13: 9780231186773 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $16.83 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese - History | Asia - Japan - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2017031860 |
| Series: Translations from the Asian Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader's edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō's acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author's deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators' commentary offers insight into the author's family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sugawara No Takasue No Musume, Sugawara No Takasue No Musume: - Takasue's Daughter, or Sugawara no Takasue no musume, was a Japanese author. "Sugawara no Takasue no musume" means a daughter of Sugawara no Takasue. Her real name is unknown.Arntzen, Sonja: - Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of Literature at the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of Pre-modern Japanese literature, history, religion, thought, and classical Japanese language. She has translated The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (U. of Michigan, 1997). With Columbia University Press, she has published Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1987), Kana Classic: An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese Kana Writing (1998), and The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan.Itō, Moriyuki: - Moriyuki Itô holds a PhD from Tôhoku University, (1995). He taught from 1984 to 2005 at Hirosaki University. He is currently professor of Japanese Literature at Gakushûin Women's College in Tokyo. He has published many articles on the Sarashina Diary over a period of thirty years. His Sarashina nikki Kenkyû, (Research on the Sarashina Diary) published in 1995 is recognized as a definitive work on the subject. |