As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. The Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and evocative descriptions of the Japanese countryside. Born in AD 1008, Lady Sarashina felt an acute sense of melancholy that led her to withdraw into the more congenial realm of the imagination - this deeply introspective work presents her vision of the world. While barely alluding to certain aspects of her life such as marriage, she illuminates her pilgrimages to temples and mystical dreams in exquisite prose, describing a profound emotional journey that can be read as a metaphor for life itself

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• Echoes of the Past

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• The capital and its society

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• Land and society

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• The rise of haikai

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• Translation, vernacular style, and the Westernesque femme fatale in modern Japanese literature

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• Religious practices

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• Aristocratic Buddhism

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• The Cambridge History of Japan

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• The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

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• Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

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• The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan

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