- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; First Edition edition (Dec 1964)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192125303
- ISBN-13: 978-0192125309
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,483,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A detailed study of the Japanese Heian period (c. AD 950-1050), and court life in Ancient Japan, where the elite were highly cultured and acutely aware of the aesthetic.
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Drawing heavily from The Tale of Gengi, this book analyzes the culture of the medieval Japanese elite. I read this years ago but the cultivated lives it describes left a deep impression: imagine a world in which love affairs were sparked by a single line of poetry passed beneath a screen, perfume-making was an art practiced by all your acquaintances, and watching the full moon was part of the social scene.
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