The budding tree : six stories of love in Edo Aiko Kitahara /
traducción: Ian MacDonald.
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2008
- 170 páginas
- Japanese literature series .
Título original: Koiwasuregusa
Contiene: Love's chill wind -- Eight-tenths a man -- No time for tears -- Innocent in love -- Forget-me-not -- The budding tree
This book has in six tales the pligth of single women struggling for success in early-to-mid-19th-century Japan. These young women protagonists are gifted artists or fledgling entrepreneurs who have lost the protection of men, either by the death of fathers or divorce from husband, and dare to make a name on their own, often with dire consequences
9781564784896
Cuentos japoneses Literatura japonesa--Siglo XX Mujeres--Japón--Condiciones sociales--Novela Japón --Periódo Tokugawa--Historia--Novela--1600-1868