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The Sarashina Diary review

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       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume's The Sarashina Diary, out in a new translation/edition from Columbia University Press.
       It's been translated before -- including, by Ivan Morris, in a nice Penguin Classics edition titled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, but four decades on there's certainly room for another, and this is a nice one.

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