The Gossamer Years : Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji. This frank autobiography diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. To impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The
eBook, English, 2011
Tuttle Publishing, Boston, 2011
1 online resource (210 pages)
9781462903573, 1462903576
779140740
Introduction; THE GOSSAMER YEARS; Book One; Book Two; Book Three; NOTES TO BOOK ONE; NOTES TO BOOK TWO; NOTES TO BOOK THREE; Appendix; Illustrations: The Heian Setting