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Title The modern Murasaki : writing by women of Meiji Japan / edited by Rebecca L. Copeland and Melek Ortabasi.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Asia perspectives
Asia perspectives.
Note Translated from the Japanese.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-389) and index.
Contents Introduction: Meiji women writers / Rebecca L. Copeland -- Meiji women's poetry / Laurel Rasplica Rodd -- Selected poems / by Meiji women -- Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901) / Rebecca L. Copeland and Aiko Okamoto MacPhail -- Daughters in boxes -- Miyake Kaho (1868-1944) / Rebecca L. Copeland -- Warbler in the grove -- Higuchi Iciyō (1872-1896) / Kyōko Ōmori -- Higuchi Iciyō's journal entries -- Tazawa Inabune (1874-1896) / Melek Ortabasi -- Temple of Godai -- Kitada Usurai (1876-1900) / Melek Ortabasi -- Hiding the gray -- Wretched sights -- Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933) / Rebecca Jennison -- How determined are today's women students? -- Broken ring -- School for emigrés -- Hasegawa Shigure (1879-1941) / Carole Cavanaugh -- Wavering traces -- Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985) / Eleanor J. Hogan -- Persimmon sweets -- Mizuno Senko (1888-1919) / Barbara Hartley -- For more than forty days -- Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945) / Edward Fowler -- Lifeblood -- Vow.
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Summary The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. Selected readings include writings by the public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction writer Shimizu Shikin, the political writer Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, N.
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Subject Japanese literature -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Translations into English -- Women authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Copeland, Rebecca L., 1956-
Ortabasi, Melek.
Other Form: Print version: Modern Murasaki. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231137745 9780231137744 (DLC) 2006017786 (OCoLC)70060976
ISBN 9780231510660 (electronic book)
0231510667 (electronic book)
0231137745 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231137744 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231137753 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780231137751 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Music No. EB00662395 Recorded Books