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Heian Period Books
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The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,502 ratings — published 1000
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,258 ratings — published 1050
The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,112 ratings — published 1010
The Tales of Ise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.89 — 677 ratings — published
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,385 ratings — published 900
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.76 — 735 ratings — published 974
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as heian-period)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,724 ratings — published 1002
The Tale of the Heike (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as heian-period)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,562 ratings — published 1219
Heian Japan, Centers And Peripheries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 2007
Selling Songs And Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian And Kamakura Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.75 — 28 ratings — published 2006
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,648 ratings — published 1332
The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.61 — 272 ratings — published 1004
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 4.08 — 145 ratings — published 2019
The Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.37 — 249 ratings — published 1912
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,891 ratings — published 1988
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.95 — 262 ratings — published 1920
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 4.04 — 941 ratings — published 1964
The Tale of Murasaki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,528 ratings — published 2000
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (Harper Trophy Book)
by (shelved 2 times as heian-period)
avg rating 3.34 — 631 ratings — published 1973
Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 1986
Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 2014
The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 1987
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Myth and Deity in Japan: The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Nihongi (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 3.55 — 167 ratings — published 720
The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.20 — 105 ratings — published 905
Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry: With ‘Tosa Nikki’ and ‘Shinsen Waka’ (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.51 — 41 ratings — published 1985
Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.08 — 84 ratings — published 1090
Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 1040
Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (The New Middle Ages)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.15 — 80 ratings — published 2003
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 2: Heian Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.10 — 48 ratings — published 1999
Tale of the Warrior Geisha (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as heian-period)
avg rating 4.13 — 45 ratings — published 2015
“Love
Thinking, thinking thus,
loving thus, there is no sleep,
I see him, we meet,
to be woken from that dream
that is suffering indeed.”
― The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Thinking, thinking thus,
loving thus, there is no sleep,
I see him, we meet,
to be woken from that dream
that is suffering indeed.”
― The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
“8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.”
― The Pillow Book
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.”
― The Pillow Book
