A Tale Unasked by Lady Nijo
A Tale Unasked by Lady Nijo
SKU: B978024156246897 • Barcode: 9780241562468

A Tale Unasked

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Autobiography: historical, political and military
  • Genre / subject: Asian history
  • Author: Lady Nijo
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

A Tale Unasked by Lady Nijo is an autobiography for adult readers.

A new translation of Lady Nijo's diary - one of classical Japan's greatest literary works Lady Nijo's. A Tale Unasked ( Towazugatari ) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical Japanese literature's famous 'women's diaries'. Thought to have been completed around 1307, when the author was in her late forties, the first two thirds of this autobiographical work document in rich and compelling detail the experiences of an imperial concubine whose time at court was ruled and finally ruined by her passionate and complicated love life.

The final third of the work equally memorably describes her peripatetic life after the emperor expelled her from the court in her mid-twenties and she became a nun, wandering the roads of Japan as a form of Buddhist austerity.

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