Sarashina

Broschiertes Buch

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

Übersetzer: Estate of Ivan Morris

Beschreibung

A autobiography in which the anonymous writer intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and descriptions of the Japanese countryside. She illuminates her pilgrimages to temples and mystical dreams in exquisite prose, describing a journey that can be read as a metaphor for life itself.

Autor

Lady Sarashina (as she is commonly known), born in 1008, was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780140442823
• ISBN-10: 0140442820
• Artikelnr.: 21691773