The Sarashina Diary (Reader’s Edition): An Excerpt

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are featuring The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader’s Edition) by Sugawara Takasue no Musume, translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō. Today we are pleased to offer you an excerpt from the book’s introduction.

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