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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan
In the Shade of Spring Leaves Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan Author:Robert Lyons Danly Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine repres... more »entative stories.« less