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Tale Unasked by Lady Nijo (2026, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100241562465

ISBN-139780241562468

eBay Product ID (ePID)28079705108

Product Key Features

Original LanguageJapanese

Book TitleTale Unasked

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Royalty, Personal Memoirs

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorLady Nijo

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Publication Year2026

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingA

SynopsisA new translation of Lady Nijo's diary--one of classical Japan's greatest literary works A Penguin Classic Lady Nijo's A Tale Unasked ( Towazugatari ) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical Japanese literature's famous "women's diaries." Thought to have been completed around 1307, when the author was in her late forties, the first two-thirds of this autobiographical work document in rich and compelling detail the experiences of an imperial concubine whose time at court was ruled and finally ruined by her passionate and complicated love life. The final third of the work equally memorably describes her peripatetic life after the emperor expelled her from the court in her mid-twenties and she became a nun, wandering the roads of Japan as a form of Buddhist austerity. Meredith McKinney's superb translation breathes new life into Lady Nijo's fascinating diaries, which survived her era in a single copy and were rediscovered only in the 1940s.