"Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."
In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among ...
I was overjoyed and decided that, with the arrival of the fifteenth, I should dash off a poem and send it to the Empress together with some of the snow in a basket. Anxiously I awaited the following day, and before dawn I gave my maid a ...
What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, and, most of all, of herself in the world.
The Pillow Book is director Peter Greenaway's celebration of the literary and calligraphic potential of cinema, and the eroticism of inscription.
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics.
This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage.
The Pillow Book: The Erotic Sentiment and the Paintings of India, Nepal, China, & Japan
It's Captain Noguchi , former weapons master at Edo Castle . I've been looking for you . " Captain Noguchi was a rawboned man whose feral , unblinking eyes regarded Sano with hostility . " Tell your lackey to let go of me , ” he said .
With stunning precision, the narrative evokes the beauty and clarity of the art and culture of Japan at that time, with Kozaisho's tales woven in bringing a fable-like quality to the tale.
Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel.