Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
-
The pillow book of Sei Shonagon
Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a […]
-
The pillow book
A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the Tale of Genji, it is one of the major Japanese classics.
-
As I crossed a bridge of dreams : recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan
A Lady-in-waiting at a Heian court in medieval Japan records her personal feelings and reactions to social standards. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing veiled longings that are both timeless and poignant.
-
The Sarashina diary
-
Season of Violence and Other Stories
-
Palm-of-the-hand stories
-
What the maid saw : eight psychic tales
-
Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan
This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing form the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today’s Japan. Along with some of the world’s most renowned Japanese authors, Digital Geishas and Talking […]
-
The gate
-
Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories
A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.