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Article: The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan.(Review)
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- Asian Folklore Studies
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- April 1, 2000
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ARNTZEN, SONJA, translator. The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies Number 19. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997. xv + 413 pages. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth US$56.95; ISBN 0-939512-80-7. Paper US$19.95; ISBN 0-939512-81-5.
Kagero Nikki, the diary of a middle-rank noblewoman in Heian Japan whose marriage slowly disintegrated, is notoriously difficult to translate. Amazingly, Edward Seidensticker did it twice, with the second effort titled The Gossamer Years (1964). Sonja Arntzen has based her new translation on explicit principles about ...