The gossamer years =

Description:

"This frank autobiographical diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose."--Cover.

subjects: Court and courtiers,  Adel,  Japanese Women authors,  Diaries,  Vrouwen,  Courts and courtiers,  Diaries, women authors,  Japan, biography

People: Michitsuna no Haha (ca. 935-995)

Places: Japan

Times: Heian period, 794-1185