Gossamer Years. Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier.
Tokyo. Tuttle. 2022. [Reprint]. Colour plates, black & white illustrations, 217pp, appendix. Paperback. "Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in tenth-century Japan - the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated Tale of Genji. In her diary, the author describes her tempestuous and unhappy marriage..... More