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In the shade of spring leaves : the writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, a women of letters in Meiji Japan by Robert Lyons Danly; Ichiyō Higuchi is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Higuchi Ichiyō, 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 representative stories.

Author

Robert Lyons Danly; Ichiyō Higuchi

Publisher

W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393309133

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14