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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics) (1st Edition) by Edward Seidensticker (Translator), Editors Periplus, Michitsuna No Haha, Kagero Nikki, Michitsunanohaha Fujiwara Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-8048-1123-7 / 0804811237 ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-1123-1 / 9780804811231 "Kagero Nikki," translated here as "The Gossamer Years," belongs to the same period as the celebrated "Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the |