Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier by Dennis Washburne

Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier

Dennis Washburne with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

240 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history memoir adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
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Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan--the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated Tale of Genji. In her diary, the author describes her tempestuous and unhappy marriage and growin...

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