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Edition · 2025-04-17 · Softcover

A Lady in Kyoto

SSSei Shonagon
2025
year of publication
128
pages
English (United Kingdom)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN-13
978-02-4175-208-1
EAN
9780241752081
Publication date
2025-04-17
Book
A Lady in Kyoto · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition

All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be… Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor’s palace and discover a lost world, in which games of poetry are the highest form of wit, lovers send each other elegant morning-after letters, and appreciation of the natural world – wild geese in autumn, the pure white frost of winter – is one of life’s most exquisite pleasures.