Rohlich, Thomas H.

A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari. Introduction and Translation by Thomas H. Rohlich.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1983. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 247 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

A complete translation of ‘Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari’, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period. It was probably written in the last half of the eleventh century, less than one hundred years after ‘The Tale of the Genji’ and traditionally attributed to Sugawara no Takasue’s daughter the author of ‘Sarashina Nikki’ (As I Crossed the Bridge of Dreams’).

• Keywords: 11th Century · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Catalogue Ten – International Literature · Heian culture · Japan · Japanese Culture · Japanese Literature · Japanese Literature – Rare · Literary Criticism – Rare · Translations · Translations from foreign literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200078AB

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