In this collection of essays, Liza Dalby takes the 72 seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac as seeds, and grows them into a year's journal...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780099506942
In this collection of essays, Liza Dalby takes the 72 seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac as seeds, and grows them into a year's journal...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780520250536
Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of "Geisha" and "The Tale of Murasaki, " brings us this elegant and unique year's journal-- a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:318
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780520259911
Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of "Geisha" and "The Tale of Murasaki, " brings us this elegant and unique year's journal-- a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:318
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780099286387
Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese woman ever to have trained as a geisha...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780520204959
In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite...more details Format:Paperback Pages:347
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780520257894
In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:347
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9781933330853
"Hidden Buddhas may well be Liza Dalby's best work yet; with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don't understand. Besides taking us on a journey through little-known corners of Japan...more details Format:Paperback Pages:396
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780099428992
This work traces the history of the Kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance - and in doing so explores the world of the geisha...more details Format:Paperback
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Liza Dalby
ISBN:9780099284642
Arguably the world's first novelist, Murasaki Shikibu wrote "The Tale of Genji" in the 11th century. Liza Dalby's novel is based on existing fragments of Murasaki's diary and poems and is a fictional account of Japan's most famous female writer....more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Liza Dalby;LuAnn Walther
ISBN:9780385497954
The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world's first novel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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GOLDEN A DALBY LIZA DOWNER LESLEY
ISBN:9780807615454
Renowned throughout the world as purveyors of beauty, mystery, and allure, geisha have come to represent the epitome of Japanese elegance and chic. The rich 250-year history of these performance artists is vividly presented in this volume...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:159