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Worlding Sei Shônagon

Henitiuk, Valerie.

Worlding Sei Shônagon The pillow book in translation / [electronic resource] : Valerie Henitiuk. - Ottawa, Ont. : University of Ottawa Press, c2012 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (ix, 312 p.) :) col. ill., music, digital file. - Perspectives on translation, 1487-6396 . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Perspectives on translation. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sei Shônagon Classical Japanese -- First generation of western translators -- Second generation -- Third generation -- Fourth generation -- Appendix I. Romanization of original and romanization with English gloss -- Appendix II. A selection of book covers from the translations -- Appendix III. A selection of modern Japanese versions -- Bibliographies.

Contained herein are forty-eight translations1 of what is arguably the single most famous passage in Japanese literature, namely the opening section of The Pillow Book, written around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman we know as Sei Shônagon. The languages represented, in entries dating from 1875 to the present day, are Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish; two versions have also been provided in Chinese (with additional versions in modern Japanese appearing in Appendix III). Most of the translations have previously been available only in rare or hard to obtain sources, and are now brought together for the first time in an affordable and readily accessible format.


Includes text in multiple languages.

9780776619798


Sei Shōnagon, b. ca. 967 --Translations--History and criticism.
Sei Shōnagon, b. ca. 967. Makura no sōshi.


Makura no sōshi--Translations.


Translating and interpreting--Cross-cultural studies.
East and West in literature.
Women authors, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185.
Japanese literature--History and criticism.--Heian period, 794-1185


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PL788.6.A1995 / H46 2012

895.6/81403