Author: Shikibu, Murasaki
Literary essays
Published on 17 December 1992 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library CLASSICS' series.
Hardback | 1184 pages
209 x 141 x 55 | 1038g
This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible.