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August 16, 2019

Book Excerpts: Translations From Heian-Era Japan

Heian-era Japan saw a flowering of literature, especially at the imperial court. Women wrote diaries, essays, poems, romances, and novels that circulated widely during and after the authors’ lives. To honor these writers, we’re closing the second week of Women...

August 14, 2019

The Marvels of the Sarashina Diary

“As the author herself says of Mount Fuji, this unique work ‘looks like nothing else in the world.’” ~David Damrosch, Harvard University This week, we’ve been featuring works from Heian-era Japan, a period that produced an enormous amount of...

April 5, 2018

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...

April 3, 2018

Q&A: Sonja Arntzen on the The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Gazing at this, I might think that the snow had fallen out of season, if it were not for the fragrance of this orange blossoms tree. The inclusion of poetry in all the classical Japanese diaries is perhaps what sets...

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Tag: Sarashina Diary

Book Excerpts: Translations From Heian-Era Japan

The Marvels of the Sarashina Diary

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

Q&A: Sonja Arntzen on the The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan