Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

by Akiko Yosano

Book Overview

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231123191
• ISBN13: 9780231123198
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher