Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company: 1 book
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's...
