Episode 296 - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, Part 1
History of Japan · Isaac Meyer
July 12, 201932m 17s
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Show Notes
This week: the start of a two-part series on women in Heian Japan. What makes the social position of women in the Heian Era so distinct from later points of Japanese history, and from the East Asian cultural sphere more generally? How do we know what we know about the lives of women? And what can we learn from the story of one particularly badass woman: the poet and "femme fatale" Izumi Shikibu?