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Little Labors

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Little Labors

By Rivka Galchen

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During the Heian period of ancient Japan (794 1185 AD), when Chinese was still the official language of power and politics, even privileged women of the imperial court were not allowed to learn Chinese and wrote instead in Japanese, using kana an abbreviated and vernacular system of written characters. Writing in this subordinate script, they produced some of the greatest works of world literature, including Murasaki Shikibu s The Tale of Genji often considered the first novel and Sei Shonagon s...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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ISBN

9780811222969

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published year

2018

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Little Labors

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Paperback

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