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• The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan,  by Lady Sarashina, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki (2014)

About the book

• The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 2014, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki, 239 p. Goodreads. My rating: 5 stars
• First published in c. 1060
• Original title: 更級日記 [Sarashina Nikki]
• This book was read for Women in Translation Month& Japanese Literature Challenge