Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

by Takeshi Watanabe

Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale, which covers about 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings in late Heian society, a golden age of court...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244400
• ISBN13: 9780674244405
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"