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In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan - Translations from the Asian Classics Ogimachi Machiko
In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan - Translations from the Asian Classics
Ogimachi Machiko
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan’s early modern era.
352 pages, 4 b&w figures
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 29, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231199506 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 15 mm · 739 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Rowley, G. G. (Waseda University) |