In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan

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Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan’s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly’s translations of nine representative stories. —Amazon.com
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1992
Number of Pages
388
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W. W. Norton and Company, Inc
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978-0393309133
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