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Kimono by Liza Crihfield Dalby
Category: Fiction
In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book Liza Dalby traces the history of the kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance and in doing so explores the world of the geisha, last wearers of the kimono. The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, ...Show more
The Tale of Murasaki by DALBY LIZA CRIHFIELD
Category: Fiction
The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese literatur ...Show more
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Crihfield Dalby
Category: Fiction
The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title of a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu. It is written in kana, then a newly developed writing system for vernacular Japanese, more common among women, ...Show more
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