As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. The Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2854643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman J Gallo (corresponding author), Ivan Morris (0000-0003-3743-7727) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2755285 |
| OpenAlex | W1602966399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
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
Ancient history · Bridge (graph theory) · Eleventh · Physics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Medicine · Surgery
Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts
Echoes of the Past
The capital and its society
Land and society
The rise of haikai
Translation, vernacular style, and the Westernesque femme fatale in modern Japanese literature
Religious practices
Aristocratic Buddhism
The Cambridge History of Japan
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2015 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |