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Lady Sarashina
Born
in Japan
December 08, 1007
Died
December 08, 1058
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
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1050
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42 editions
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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1920
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97 editions
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更級日記（上）
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土佐日記 蜻蛉日記 紫式部日記 更級日記
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In Descending Order
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2006
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The Lives of Three Women in 11th Century Japan (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
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“One bright moonlit night, when I was on a journey and staying in a house by a bamboo grove, I awoke to the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind. As I lay there, unable to go back to sleep, I wrote the poem,
'Night after night I lie awake,
Listening to the rustle of the bamboo leaves,
And a strange sadness fills my heart.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
'Night after night I lie awake,
Listening to the rustle of the bamboo leaves,
And a strange sadness fills my heart.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
“It is their scent alone
That tells me what those scattered orange blossoms are.
Else I should have thought they were
Untimely flakes of snow.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
That tells me what those scattered orange blossoms are.
Else I should have thought they were
Untimely flakes of snow.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
“In Suruga stands Mount Fuji, which I used to see in the West from the province where I grew up. There is no mountain like it in the world. It has the most unusual shape and seems to have been painted deep blue, its thick cover of unmelting snow gives the impression that the mountain is wearing a white jacket over a dress of deep violet.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Polls
What should be our February 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (Asia)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin (Turkey)
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (Japan)
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi (Afghanistan)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (China)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (China)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (China)
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (Thailand [Siam])
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)
I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)
House of Cards by Sudha Murty (India)
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain (India)
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (India)
67 total votes
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