- Hardcover: 164 pages
- Publisher: Dc_books (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0919688683
- ISBN-13: 978-0919688681
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.3 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,347,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...delightful introduction to the attitudes and amusements of Japan's ancient courtly society. History has rarely been easier to read. -- Patricia Morley, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000
Lady Kasa's infatuation with a palace guard unfolds in a series of vividly imagined, obliquely sexual scenes and conversations.... -- The Globe and Mail, March, 2001
Sherwood’s text has a clear novelistic pedigree, with echoes of Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Swift’s Waterland. -- Marcel DeCoste
Lady Kasa's infatuation with a palace guard unfolds in a series of vividly imagined, obliquely sexual scenes and conversations.... -- The Globe and Mail, March, 2001
Sherwood’s text has a clear novelistic pedigree, with echoes of Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Swift’s Waterland. -- Marcel DeCoste
Book Description
A grand tenth century love affair told by a beautiful lady-in- waiting in an ancient Japanese 'Pillow Book', as stylistically perfect and lovely as light glittering among reeds on the Inland Sea at evening. - Or is it a brilliant fake by the lovesick archeologist who pens the Introduction.... The presentation of the setting - an astonishingly recreated tenth century Japan - is as precise and evocative as the finest Japanese brush painting.
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Makura no soshi ('notes of the pillow') was a generic term for an informal book of notes which men and women of old Japan composed when they retired to their rooms in the evening. Read the first page
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Makura no soshi ('notes of the pillow') was a generic term for an informal book of notes which men and women of old Japan composed when they retired to their rooms in the evening. Read the first page
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