shikibu murasaki lady murasaki (96 resultados)

Condición: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: New. Takita, Inko Ai Ilustrador. 2022. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .

Hardback. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.85.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Takita, Inko Ai Ilustrador. Neuware - Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Type: Book pp XXX, 199 + advertisements. An unread book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. First Thus. The back jacket blurb for this 253 page Japanese classic warns that it deals with `decaying aristocracy'. It comes from the pen of an eleventh century lady of the court. Read more about : ill-written, Amida the Buddha, Yugao's death, Fifth Rank, Prince Hitachi, Ki no Kami, broom-tree, Zen-master, Jiju, night excursions, and Mount Hiyei, Arthur Waley did the translation from the Japanese in 1929. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with a red spine, Cover art is from a painting by Kitao Shigemasa.(lady plays kuoto) Tight in binding. Minimal wear, minimal soiling. No names nor marks. Clean and bright. Almost giftable ! ! QUote (p. 43) : " On festival days such a woman is very troublesome. For example on the morning of the Iris Festival, when everyone is making ready to go to the temple, she will worry them by stringing together all the old tags about the matchless root, or on the 9th day ._._._. . " Size: 12mo.

Condición: Good. Miyata Masayuki Ilustrador. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condición: New. Genji Monogatari 1.1. Book.

Hard Cover. Condición: F-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First Thus. F-/VG. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (top edge slightly speckled) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slightly rubbed & worn at extremites); pp. xvi, 1136 (last blank). A near fine copy.

Condición: New. In.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Modern Library Giant number 38. Complete and unabridged. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. A later printing. Uniform age toning throughout text block, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.; 1135 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The Tale of Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel the first modern novel. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condición: Very Good. Condition: Very Good, Pages: 1120, Size: 23.3x15.9x5.6.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. First British Edition. First publication in this edition in Britain. A Very Fine copy in pale green linen cloth, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 1184pp. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. An immaculate copy. Q12813.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Complete in six volumes: The Tale of Genji (1925), The Sacred Tree: Being the Second Part of 'The Tale of Genji' (1926), A Wreath of Cloud: Being the Third Part of 'The Tale of Genji' (1927), Blue Trousers: Being the Fourth Part of "The Tale of Genji" (1928), The Lady of the Boat: Being the Fifth Part of "The Tale of Genji" (1932), and The Bridge of Dreams: Being the Second Volume of "The Lady of the Boat" and the Final Part of "The Tale of Genji" (1933). Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. The sixth volume is a first American edition, the others appear to be early printings but not firsts. All volumes are considerably shelf worn and age darkened, the first four volumes have the previous owner's book-plate on the front paste-down, else all volumes are in good condition. No dust jackets.

London - Boston & New York, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. - Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933, in-8, tela editoriale verde con titolo e filettature oro al dorso, pp. 341, (3). Prima edizione inglese: nella traduzione dell'orientalista A. Waley l'intero "Genji monogatari" fu edito in 6 volumi dal 1925 al 1933 e rimane ancor oggi un punto di riferimento. Ottime condizioni, salvo qualche mancanza al margine bianco esterno delle pagine 331-34, che sono state probabilmente aperte a mano invece che tagliate con un tagliacarte.

Condición: Very good. First Edition. First in English, in the original cloth of varying shades of green and dark blue. Generally, very good with wear, rubbing and fading to the bindings of each volume. Old library stamp to the lower margin of the volume 1 title page, some offsetting to endpapers of volume 2, foxing to page edges and early/late leave of volume 3, small library stamps to the pastedowns of volume 5, small ink ownership signature to the front endpaper of volume 6, else all are internally clean. Unparalleled in literary history, The Tale of Genji stands as the first extant novel authored by a woman, and is among the viable candidates for the first novel. Murasaki Shikibu's work emerged within the relatively isolated cultural sphere of Heian Japan, where literacy was confined primarily to the aristocratic elite. Initially circulating in manuscript form among court circles, the novel reached a limited sphere. Murasaki's eleventh-century masterwork represents a pioneering achievement in prose fiction whose significance lies more in its retrospective recognition than in any immediate literary impact. Sophisticated psychological portraiture, complex narrative architecture, and nuanced examination of court politics emerged from a gendered subject position traditionally excluded from formal literary production. Her unprecedented accomplishmentcreating a sustained narrative of extraordinary length that explores interiority, temporality, and social relationsgained appreciation centuries later not only in academia but also among modernist literary figures when Arthur Waley's translation appeared in the 1920s. As both author and historical subject, Murasaki embodies the complex negotiation between gender constraints and intellectual authority, having produced a text that would remain unsurpassed in its narrative complexity for centuries. The story reveals a narrative of remarkable structural sophistication operating across multiple hermeneutic dimensions. The text articulates a complex meditation on mono no aware (the pathos of things) through its depiction of Genji's romantic pursuits and political machinations. Murasaki employs recursive narrative patterns and cyclical character relationships that function as literary embodiments of Buddhist conceptions of karma and impermanence. The work's intricate exploration of court aestheticsparticularly through detailed descriptions of poetry, calligraphy, music, and material cultureconstitutes not merely ornamental features but essential vehicles for character development and thematic exposition. Contemporary scholarship has identified the text's deployment of multilayered female subjectivities as a radical narrative innovation, especially through its representation of women's interior experiences within patriarchal social structures. The novel's complex temporal architecture, which spans multiple generations while resisting linear progression, prefigures narrative techniques not widely adopted in Western literature until the modernist period, thus positioning Murasaki's work as an overlooked antecedent to contemporary narrative experimentation.

FIRST EDITIONS, third volume with light paperclip mark at head of prelims, this and subsequent volume with a couple of marginal marks in pencil corresponding to page references at rear endpapers, fourth volume with a small amount of spotting to margins, pp. 300, [4, ads]; 304; 312; 333, [3, ads]; 309, [5, ads]; 341, [3, ads], 8vo, original dark blue or green cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt and very gently sunned on a few volumes, a couple of volumes with just a touch of wear at tips of backstrip, the fourth with slight bleed to cloth at centre of backstrip, a touch of rubbing to extremities, third and sixth volumes from the library of Cyril Tomkinson (ownership and gift inscription respectively), a very good set. Arthur Waley's translation of this eleventh-century Japanese novel, 'Genji monogatari', was a task and achievement comparable to Scott-Moncrieff's translation of Proust, and in a cultural sense more of a challenge. The earlier translation into English, by Suematsu Kench in 1882, was heavily abridged, and Waley's situation was an isolated one - without much in the way of existing models or scholarly commentaries to guide him in attempting to render the courtly vernacular of the Heian period. Even if Waley's work has been built upon and improved by subsequent translations, its reputation remains high and its significance - particularly in respect of forging an analogy between early Japanese and modern Western sensibilities as represented in the form of the novel - supreme.

Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. The name of the author of the Sarashina Diary is unknown, but she was the daughter of Fujiwara no Takasue, and was born around 1009AD. Izumi Shikibu was born around 976AD, served at the court of the Empress Akiko and married Fujiwara no Yasimasu. .