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title: "Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics)"
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# Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics)

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Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Delightful insight to a world long gone; Lady Murasaki was intriguing at the very least...
  

*by O***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 23, 2019*

I was expecting a straightforward diary, but this was a delight. Much of this book lays down important groundwork needed to understand or at least appreciate the world of Lady Murasaki. The actual diary is small, perhaps much was lost or omitted, or I suspect destroyed, but the insights Lady Murasaki offers on the world around her will make you laugh out loud at times due to the vanity of others. More intriguing are her personal thoughts on how others behave, the vanity and jealously associated with royalty and the elaborate support systems in place. At times Lady Murasaki is guilty of vanity herself, perhaps obsessed with clothing, but perhaps just a victim of the time. More often than not her wit, grace, and charm will overwhelm your spirit, you want to meet her and get to know her more. My only complaint is that I do want more of her, she was a remarkably insightful person, and more intelligent than she would lead you to believe. But because she was a woman much of her genius was repressed, forbidden at the time. But those who felt as I do loved her enough and appreciated her genius, and so over 1000 years later we are still talking about dear Lady Murasaki.

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    historic relevance but not literature nor diary, perhaps biographic
  

*by R***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2018*

After one reads the major works of major authors one eventually plumbs their second rank and unfinished works. That was my expectation but this is really a textual study. The main text (less than 50% of the book) is fluffed up with front & back matter and footnotes that are insightful and make the text’s ceremonial events more interesting than themselves. The main text is a recording of the ceremonial events of a prince’s birth. In appendix 2 Murasaki’s text can be compared with two other recordings/histories of this same event; and the differences, particularly her interjections of annotation and self reflections, make hers much more interesting. Without having to read between the lines, ones take away is a unwelcome thought; in her own time her status as an author was demurred and relegated due to petty jealousies within the court amongst people of ranks lower, equal and higher than hers and amongst both men and particularly women. Sadly, she had to hide her knowledge of the great Japanese anthologies of poetry and her skills in reading and writing Chinese. Her psychology in the brief period of this history’s recording seems progressively embittered, evidenced by her preference for privacy and encroaching isolation. Normally when I read classical Japanese literature I enjoy the usage of seasonal words or phrases (Kigo) and the borrowing and referencing of classical verses containing Kigo. In the Tale of Genji Murasaki’s ploy of these devices was playful and intriguing and often in allusions to the foreplay of a courtship or dalliance. In comparison in this work her exchange of poems too often seemed intend at keeping people at a comfortable distance from herself.

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    Small but looks to be interesting.
  

*by P***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2022*

I readTales of Genji several years ago & wondered about Lady Murisaki. I bought this as companion book after l bought my own copy of Genji.

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