Liza Dalby: 5 books

Book cover of Little Songs of Geisha

Little Songs of Geisha

Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta

by Liza Dalby
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan. Traditional Japanese ko–uta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating...
Book cover of The Tale of Murasaki
by Liza Dalby
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002

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, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese...
Book cover of The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic

by Okakura Kakuzo, Liza Dalby
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012

Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters. The Book of Tea doesn't...
Book cover of Geisha
by Liza Dalby
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Gesellschafterinnen oder Edelhuren? Zwischen diesen beiden Extremen bewegen sich westliche Vorstellungen über Geishas. Die amerikanische Ethnologin Liza Dalby wollte es genau wissen. Als erste Ausländerin ließ sie sich in einem Teehaus in Kyoto zur Geisha ausbilden und erlernte diesen traditionsreichen...
Book cover of Pflaumenblüten im Schnee
by Liza Dalby
Language: German
Release Date: September 23, 2016

Aus den nachgelassenen Schriften der Murasaki Shikibu hat Liza Dalby eine faszinierende Romanbiographie entwickelt. Mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen entführt sie den Leser in die Blütezeit einer uralten Kultur und erzählt zugleich von einem Frauenleben, das der heutigen Zeit sehr nahe ist. Als...
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