In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories

Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1992
ISBN: 9780393309133
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.13w x 0.96d