Okagami: The Great Mirror (Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times) by: Helen Craig McCullough (A Study and Translation by)
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 381 pages. Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical tale that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.