As I crossed the bridge of dreams : recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan / [Takasue no Musume] ; translated [from the Japanese] with an introduction by Ivan Morris.

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1975.

xix,153p. : ill., maps ; 18cm.

'... the author of this book ... is usually known as "Takasue's Daughter" (Takasue no Musume) ... The book is usually known as "Sarashina nikki" ...' - Introduction.
This translation originally published: New York : Dial Press ; London : Oxford University Press, 1971.
Includes index.

A autobiography in which the anonymous writer intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and descriptions of the Japanese countryside. She illuminates her pilgrimages to temples and mystical dreams in exquisite prose, describing a journey that can be read as a metaphor for life itself.

9780140442823 (pbk)

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